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Anonymous ID: a98864 Aug. 14, 2018, 11:36 p.m. No.2608038   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8074 >>8150 >>8283 >>8304 >>8346

Operation Underground Railroad; CPS software; Elizabeth Smart (kidnapped at 14)

 

Tech startup Operation Underground Railroad is saving kids from human traffickers

 

Source: Venturebeat

 

Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) chief executive and founder Tim Ballard walked into the Imperial County Sheriff’s office Thursday night with a young blond woman in tow.

 

In a meeting room Ballard, 38, and the young woman sat down. The executive flipped open his laptop. Seated across from Ballard was Imperial County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jimmy Duran. They talked about a few things. About a suspect the sheriffs would arrest the following morning for distributing child pornography. And about the data mining software platform Ballard trained them to use that led to the suspect.

 

“He brought the technology here that allowed us to make the case. From what I’ve seen, this is a very effective tool for law enforcement. And as a result of using it, we made a good arrest,” Duran said.

 

As for the young woman who accompanied Ballard to the meeting? Elizabeth Smart, the Salt Lake City teen who was kidnapped from her home in 2002 when she was 14 and spent nine months of living hell as her captors drove her around the country. Smart, now a contributor for ABC news, works closely with the startup.

 

Ballard calls the software a child protection system (CPS). Incredibly, he and his team had trained the Imperial County Sheriff’s office how to use it the previous week. If they hadn’t, the suspect, who was busted early Friday and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, would likely have escaped detection…

 

 

https://ourrescue.org/blog/elizabeth-smart-operation-underground-railroad/