State lawmakers in Tallahassee are considering sweeping changes to how law enforcement and child welfare agencies rescue and treat child victims of sex trafficking. It's a widespread problem whose solutions have been hotly debated in recent years.

Two pieces of legislation could bring more safe-houses and resources to combat sex trafficking here. Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter David McSwane looks at those issues, and the efforts of one former prostitute to get young women off the streets of Sarasota and Bradenton.