WATFORD CITY - Every growing community is faced with new issues. The expanding industry and population of Western North Dakota has brought about awareness of previously un-addressed types of exploitation. While many have heard of human trafficking, they generally associate it with sex trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. However, another component of human trafficking is labor trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud or coercion. Hospitality, agriculture, and other laborfocused industries are most likely to be affiliated with labor trafficking. Communities facing labor shortages and high demand for their services must be informed about labor trafficking in order to identify and prevent its occurrence.