Guam § 26 - Date Collection and Dissemination.

§ 26. Date Collection and Dissemination.

(a) The government of Guam shall, in cooperation with

other appropriate authorities, collect and periodically publish

statistical data on trafficking.

(b) The government of Guam shall elicit the cooperation

and assistance of other government agencies, non-governmental

organizations, and other elements of civil society as appropriate

to assist in the data collection required under paragraph (a) of

this subsection.

(c) The appropriate authorities in each agency that play a

vital role in addressing trafficking shall make best efforts to

collect information relevant to tracking progress on trafficking,

including but not limited to:

(1) numbers of investigations, arrests, prosecutions,

and successful convictions of traffickers and those

committing trafficking-related crimes (pimping, pandering,

procuring, maintaining a brothel, child pornography, visa

fraud, document fraud, and other crimes related to

trafficking);

(2) the estimated number and demographic

characteristics of persons engaged in violations of the

criminal provisions defined in section 26.02 of this article

as well as persons who purchase or receive commercial sex

acts or sexually-explicit performances, or labor or services,

performed by victims of trafficking in persons;

(3) statistics on the number of victims, including

nationality, age, method of recruitment, and city, state, and

country of origin;

(4) trafficking routes and patterns (states or countries

of origin, transit states or countries, and destination states or

countries);

(5) methods of transportation (car, boat, plane, foot), if

any transportation took place; and

(6) social and economic factors that contribute to and

foster the demand for all forms of exploitation of persons

that lead to trafficking.