Community Partners Against Human Trafficking

Stephen Patrick O’Meara is currently a semi-retired graduate of the Creighton University School of Law, who has practiced law for 45 years as a civil and criminal litigation and appellate attorney in state and federal courts in Nebraska, Iowa and elsewhere.  

He has substantially participated in the formation and operation of six major, successful task forces, variously engaged in child abuse-neglect enforcement and treatment, drug-violent crime enforcement, complex white collar crime enforcement, terrorism enforcement, and human trafficking-child exploitation enforcement and treatment, and has been awarded state and national recognition for his work against child abuse and neglect, gang and other organized crime violence, and large-scale illegal drug trafficking.  For the last 10 years he has worked against human trafficking, including serving for about 5 years as the primary federal prosecutor for the FBI-led Omaha Child Exploitation Task Force, and subsequently for the Nebraska Attorney General as a founder and coordinator of the Nebraska Human Trafficking Task Force.  He is currently the president of the Omaha-based Coalition On Human Trafficking, and a member of the board of directors of the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking.  

He has taught as an adjunct instructor in law school, various undergraduate colleges, the United States Department of Justice National Advocacy Center, and is a long-time public speaker on various community issues.