{"id":73,"date":"2026-05-22T05:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:37:55","slug":"north-carolina-lawmakers-ask-for-investigation-into-funding-disruptions-for-sexual-abuse-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Members of a bipartisan committee of North Carolina senators are asking the state auditor to investigate how money intended to stop human trafficking had been spent and managed, in response to ProPublica\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n

Read more The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge \u2014 and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor<\/a><\/p>\n

ProPublica had reported how the Republican-dominated legislature had directed $15 million for sexual abuse survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money, sending it to a tiny commission in the Republican-helmed state court system. The Human Trafficking Commission struggled to disburse the funds in a timely manner, according to its former grants administrator. Staffers at 18 crisis centers told ProPublica payments were delayed for months and led to cuts, some of which continue to limit urgent, potentially lifesaving services.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like something that we can definitely put the auditor on,\u201d said Sen. Steve Jarvis, a Republican co-chair of the Committee on Regulatory Reform, after a Democratic senator highlighted ProPublica\u2019s reporting in a meeting last week.<\/p>\n

The committee subsequently advanced a bill to empower the state auditor to create a team to investigate waste, fraud and inefficiency in state spending and report to lawmakers what can be cut. \u2014 named for Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek \u2014 would create under him the Division of Accountability, Value and Efficiency. This division has been widely described as North Carolina\u2019s version of the federal Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.<\/p>\n

Boliek told the senators that he was moving quickly to respond to ProPublica\u2019s reporting. Boliek said that he had read the article and put it on his team\u2019s \u201cwhiteboard,\u201d and that he had established a \u201crapid response team\u201d as \u201ca way for us to be proactively reactive\u201d even before the division is officially established. Boliek did not respond to questions about the nature and timing of the investigation sent to his office.<\/p>\n

Sen. Woodson Bradley, a Democratic member of the committee, said in the meeting that as a survivor of domestic violence, \u201cthis story broke my heart. It broke my trust.\u201d Bradley said she had heard from numerous survivors across the state about the story.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m asking publicly, before the DAVE Act goes to the Senate floor, to explain to all of North Carolina what went wrong here? How can we fix this?\u201d Bradley said, leading to the promises from the Republican senator and state auditor to look into the Human Trafficking Commission.<\/p>\n

Bradley said that after the meeting, \u201cThe auditor gave me personal assurances that he or his team would look into this. Though the existence of such investigations is rarely made public, I followed up to ask for a formal investigation, and I\u2019m waiting for\u201d written confirmation.<\/p>\n

Read more Texas Lawmakers Are Again Pushing to Spend Millions on Kits to Find Missing Kids. Experts Say They Don\u2019t Work.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the meeting, Bradley also raised concerns that the DAVE Act could be politicized, with investigations targeting agencies led by Democrats or serving them, as Democrats have accused DOGE of doing. She argued that the redirection of the $15 million to the Human Trafficking Commission had happened through a partisan maneuver in a past state budget and worried that the DAVE Act could be similarly skewed. \u201cIt needs to be an honest and bipartisan review,\u201d Bradley said.<\/p>\n

Boliek promised to do his job in \u201ca nonpartisan way that\u2019s data-centric\u201d and based on \u201cwhat we\u2019re actually getting as a return on investment on taxpayer dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the $15 million redirected to the Human Trafficking Commission, lawmakers gave the commission additional money specifically for faith-based groups. The group that received the most money from the commission \u2014 $640,000 \u2014 had been created by the former head of the state GOP about two months before it was named in the 2021 budget. In October 2024, the group wrote in its quarterly report to the court system that it had assisted only four victims, and its executive director said that at least three of those women had been given only food and gas and no long-term services. The executive director told ProPublica that as of March 2025 the group had helped about two dozen victims.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the court system declined to comment for this article, pointing ProPublica to its past statements.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur experience is that support for fighting human trafficking is nonpartisan in the legislature,\u201d the spokesperson had previously told ProPublica, \u201cas it is in the Judicial Branch.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Jarvis told ProPublica that the DAVE Act was meant to address situations \u201cexactly\u201d like those with the Human Trafficking Commission.<\/p>\n

The goal of the DAVE division, Jarvis said, would be to get down into the details of how efficiently agencies are working to make sure they are \u201coperating the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Texas Lawmakers Push to Enforce Election Transparency Law After Newsrooms Found School Districts Failed to Comply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to ProPublica\u2019s reporting, a bipartisan committee of senators is asking the state auditor to investigate how $15 million intended to stop human trafficking had been spent and managed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nNorth Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors - Moving Services America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors - Moving Services America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In response to ProPublica\u2019s reporting, a bipartisan committee of senators is asking the state auditor to investigate how $15 million intended to stop human trafficking had been spent and managed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moving Services America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-22T05:37:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1339\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a\"},\"headline\":\"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-22T05:37:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73\"},\"wordCount\":827,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Politics\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73\",\"name\":\"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors - Moving Services America\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-22T05:37:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1339},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=73#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Moving Services America\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors - Moving Services America","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors - Moving Services America","og_description":"In response to ProPublica\u2019s reporting, a bipartisan committee of senators is asking the state auditor to investigate how $15 million intended to stop human trafficking had been spent and managed.","og_url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73","og_site_name":"Moving Services America","article_published_time":"2026-05-22T05:37:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":1339,"url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a"},"headline":"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors","datePublished":"2026-05-22T05:37:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73"},"wordCount":827,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp","keywords":["Politics"],"articleSection":["Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73","url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73","name":"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors - Moving Services America","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp","datePublished":"2026-05-22T05:37:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ec5970cef39183ad2783442349375bda.webp","width":2000,"height":1339},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=73#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/","name":"Moving Services America","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com"],"url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}