During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing prior to the congressional recess, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) questioned Tim Tebow about providing law enforcement with training to recognize human trafficking.
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Thank you for holding this hearing. Thank you to everyone. I guess I'll start with you, Ms. Doe. Thank you for your willingness to come forward and share what you and your family went through. No one should have to do that. You have talked about in your written testimony, given ever-expanding technology now driven by artificial intelligence, every child risks becoming a victim. Senator Cruz and I actually passed a bill called the Take It Down Act that the president signed into law that requires that the platform takes it down on notification from the victim in 48 hours. We've had several suicides and just really horrendous situations around the country. How can a legal right to have these horrible images removed from online platforms help to move forward with your life?
They passed something... If they create something that can take down these images for all the victims, not just my family, of course. It would impact these children just knowing that someone is out there offering to help them. These images are all over. Everywhere technology is, it's on a tablet, it's on a cell phone. Everywhere you look, there's a way to find these images of their abuse and their terror that they've gone through. If there were laws that were passed in order to get rid of it, it would save the children mentally and physically harm, and not just... It's not going to be immediate. It's going to be a long-term situation, but somebody has to start somewhere to do something, and little steps make the big change.
Thank you. There's obviously more to do, including the Section 230 situation, which I'm sure you know about. Okay, Ms. Sheehan.
NCMEC in 2024 received more than 83,000 requests to remove non-consensual explicit images from online platforms. Could you talk about how the Take It Down bill, now the next bill in front of us, strengthens NCMEC's ability to help victims remove the images?
Absolutely, and we appreciate your leadership on that issue. Specifically, we operate a Take It Down program that allows for survivors or their designee to submit hashes related to nude, partially nude, or exploitative material so that we can utilize those hashes with companies that voluntarily agree to use them to remove the content from their services. We also have other voluntary programs related to hash sharing initiatives, but again, the difference that the Take It Down Act made is adding a legal requirement to remove that content.
Thank you. Mr. Tebow, I was remembering way back when you were one of the speakers at the National Prayer Breakfast and I was co-chairing it with Johnny Isakson. Do you remember that? You're under oath.
You did a nice job. Thank you. Seems like a simpler time. I believe that we need, like you do, to give law enforcement resources to quickly identify victims of human trafficking because the faster a victim can be identified, the faster they can be helped. The Renewed Hope Act seeks to do that. Could you talk about why training is an important part of that act, training of law enforcement?
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Klobuchar, A. (2026, April 9). Klobuchar Asks Tim Tebow About Importance Of Training Law Enforcement To Identify Human Trafficking [Interview transcript]. Forbes Breaking News. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3209911/
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Amy Klobuchar. "Klobuchar Asks Tim Tebow About Importance Of Training Law Enforcement To Identify Human Trafficking." Forbes Breaking News, 9 Apr. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3209911/.
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@misc{klobuchar2026_3209911,
author = {Amy Klobuchar},
title = {Klobuchar Asks Tim Tebow About Importance Of Training Law Enforcement To Identify Human Trafficking},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, Forbes Breaking News. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2026},
month = {apr},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3209911/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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