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Another Multiracial Family Falsely Accused of Sex Trafficking While Flying\nELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 9.10.2019 9:30 AM\n(Alexey Bychkov/ZUMA Press/Newscom)\n\nLawsuit alleges profiling by Frontier Airlines. In what's becoming a sadly regular occurrence, another multiracial family has been profiled by airline staff as being involved in human trafficking. In this case, 55-year-old Peter DelVecchia, a white man, was traveling with his adopted 12-year-old son, who is black. According to a lawsuit DelVecchia filed in federal court, Frontier Airlines staff accused him of sex trafficking his son and detained the boy in the back of the plane.\n\nDelVecchia alleges that the only basis for this confrontation was the fact that he and his son don't have the same skin color.\n\n \n\nKing County considers sex trafficking awareness training for Uber, Lyft drivers\nA proposed measure that King County Council is considering would create curriculum to teach Uber and Lyft drivers the warning signs of sex trafficking.Author: Ted LandPublished: 11:38 PM PDT September 9, 2019Updated: 6:43 AM PDT September 10, 2019\n\nSEATTLE \u2014 The King County Council is considering requiring training for Uber and Lyft drivers on how to spot the signs of sex trafficking.\n\nA measure before the council would set up a curriculum for drivers, teaching them warning signs, what to watch out for, and how to offer help to people who might be exploited.\n\n\u201cBecause victims often don\u2019t own their own cars, they\u2019re dependent on rideshare and taxi services in order to get around,\u201d said Mar Brettmann, executive director of BEST - Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking.\n\nBrettmann has trained drivers on this topic and says they often spot passengers in distress, but don't know what to do.\n\n\u201cWe've done training for the hotel industry, and we saw a dramatic jump in the number of people who were actually identifying victims of human trafficking, and we think the same thing will happen in the rideshare and taxi industry,\u201d Brettmann said.