Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-1-9-123: Policies and procedures for children and youth at

risk of sex trafficking.

A. 1. The Department of Human Services shall, in consultation

with state and local law enforcement, juvenile justice systems,

health care providers, education agencies, and organizations with

experience in dealing with at-risk children and youth, establish

policies and procedures, including relevant training for

caseworkers, for identifying, documenting in agency records, and

determining appropriate services for children and youth at risk of

sex trafficking.

2. The policies and procedures shall be developed for every

child or youth over whom the Department has responsibility for

placement, care, or supervision and shall apply when the Department

has reasonable cause to believe a child or youth is currently, or is

at risk of being, a victim of sex trafficking, including a child or

youth:

a. for whom the Department has an open case file, but who

has not been removed from the home,

b. who has run away from foster care and who has not

attained eighteen (18) years of age, or

c. who is not in foster care but is receiving services.

B. 1. When notified a child or youth has run away or is

missing from a foster placement, the Department shall, within

twenty-four (24) hours of notification, report such status of the

child or youth to local law enforcement, the National Crime

Information Center, and to the National Center for Missing and

Exploited Children. The report submitted to law enforcement and the

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shall include

where reasonably possible:

a. a photo of the missing or abducted child or youth,

b. a description of the child’s or youth’s physical

features, such as height, weight, sex, ethnicity,

race, hair color, and eye color, and

c. endangerment information, such as the child’s or

youth’s pregnancy status, prescription medications,

tendency toward suicidal thoughts, vulnerability to

being a victim of sex trafficking, and other health or

risk factors.

2. The Department shall maintain regular communication with law

enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited

Children in an effort to provide for a safe recovery of a missing or

abducted child or youth, including by sharing information pertaining

to the child’s or youth’s recovery and circumstances related to the

recovery.

C. The Department shall develop and implement specific

protocols to:

1. Expeditiously locate any child or youth missing from foster

care;

2. Determine the primary factors that contributed to the child

or youth running away or otherwise being absent from foster care;

3. Respond, to the extent possible and appropriate, to those

factors that contributed to the absence from care or runaway

behaviors in the current and subsequent placements of the child or

youth; and

4. Determine what the child or youth experienced while absent

from care, that would include an appropriate screening to determine

if the child or youth is a possible victim of sex trafficking.

D. The Department shall report to law enforcement authorities

immediately, and in no case later than twenty-four (24) hours, after

receiving information on a child or youth who has been identified as

being a sex trafficking victim as defined by Section 1-1-105 of this

title.