Information for Human Trafficking Victims

Instructions for submitting a request to block adverse items resulting from Human Trafficking

If you are a victim of human trafficking, the FCRA has created a process for you to block consumer reporting agencies such as Screen Corps from furnishing consumer reports containing adverse items of information that resulted from certain types of human trafficking. In order to initiate this process, we will need for you to provide:

1. Appropriate proof of your identity as part of your request to block adverse items of information that resulted from trafficking. Please provide as many of these details as possible:
   • First, Middle, Last Name
   • Any other or previously used names,
   • Current and/or recent full address (street number and name, apt. no., city, state, and zip code),
   • SSN
   • DOB

In addition, we may request additional proof of your identity. If necessary, we may request copies of government-issued identification documents, utility bills, and other methods of authenticating of a person’s identity,

2. Trafficking Documentation. This is:
   
   1. Victim Determination Information
      
      1. Victim determination is generally defined as documentation of a determination that a consumer is a victim of trafficking, made by either:
         • a Federal, State, or Tribal governmental entity,
         • a court of competent jurisdiction, which includes certain documents filed in court;
         • a non-governmental organization or human trafficking task force, including victim service providers affiliated with these entities, authorized by a Federal, State, or Tribal government entity; or
         • a self-attestation by a consumer who identifies as a victim of trafficking that is signed or certified by a Federal, State, or Tribal government entity, court of competent jurisdiction, or an authorized representative of these entities.
   2. Identified adverse items of information. These are generally documents that identify items of adverse information that should not be furnished by us because the items resulted from a severe form of trafficking in persons or sex trafficking. An “adverse item of information” could include records containing derogatory information, such as payment delinquencies or defaults, records of coerced debt, records of criminal arrests and convictions, and records of evictions or non-payment of rent.
   3. A preferred means of written communication to you. This can be a mailing address or email address.

 Please mail the above information to either of these mailing addresses: