Effective Date: June 25, 2026
Owned & Operated By: The Emergency Preparedness Network / Paul Dutton (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”)
1. Zero-Tolerance for Human Trafficking and Forced Labor
The Emergency Preparedness Network and Paul Dutton maintain an absolute zero-tolerance policy for human trafficking, modern slavery, forced labor, or debt bondage in any aspect of our corporate governance, field operations, sub-contracting loops, or client consultation engagements.
We operate in strict compliance with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1714.43) and federal anti-trafficking statutes.
We actively mandate that all emergency preparation vendors, safety kit manufacturers, and logistics partners certify that materials incorporated into their emergency products comply with the laws regarding slavery and human trafficking of the country or countries in which they do business.
2. Specialized Compliance for Disaster & Mitigation Sites
In direct alignment with California statutory expansions, the Company acknowledges that localized disaster areas, active wildfire response zones, evacuation networks, and recovery mitigation sites are high-risk environments for labor exploitation and human trafficking.
Mandatory Notice Posting: When the Company manages or structurally advises private or public entities operating within a state-designated or federally declared disaster or mitigation site, we require the explicit posting of the California Department of Justice model notice regarding human trafficking resources and emergency hotlines pursuant to California Civil Code Section 52.6.
Mandatory Personnel Training: All internal personnel, field auditors, and contracted specialists deployed by the Company who operate within or interface with disaster infrastructure sites must complete a minimum of 20 minutes of specialized human trafficking awareness training. This training instructs personnel how to identify indicators of coercion, track labor abuse among vulnerable emergency evacuees or temporary recovery workers, and execute secure reporting pipelines to the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and law enforcement.
3. California Child Labor Law Adherence
When structuring school safety plans, campus evacuation blueprints, or community youth preparedness programs, Paul Dutton and the Company strictly uphold the California Labor Code and California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) child protection frameworks:
No Exploitative Minor Labor: The Company does not utilize minor labor for operational infrastructure staging, disaster exercises, heavy lifting, or deployment of physical tactical security layouts.
School Safety Co-dependencies: Any safety recommendations or standard operating procedures designed for Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) explicitly preserve the structural safety of minors and strictly bar any emergency staging configurations that could lead to the unmonitored or non-consensual containment, isolation, or exploitation of school-aged children.
4. California Labor Code & PAGA Compliance (Wage & Hour Protections)
To maintain structural compliance under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) Reform Amendments, the Company implements rigorous, preemptive internal oversight protections:
All Reasonable Steps Protocol: The Company routinely executes periodic independent payroll audits, enforces lawful written wage-and-hour allocation policies, and conducts routine supervisor training regarding California Labor Code compliance.
Anti-Retaliation Safeguards: No employee, independent contractor, or field consultant will face termination, demotion, or administrative retaliation for reporting suspected labor code variations, wage theft, unsafe disaster site conditions, or suspected human trafficking indicators within our operations or the operations of our client networks.
