The sister said the family wants the FBI to get involved in the investigation "as the police are not working at 100%." 
 
 But in a detailed update posted Thursday on its Facebook page, the Provo Police Department said 30 department members are actively working the case and had dedicated 3,500 hours to date to find Laguna-Salgado. 
 
 The department said it has followed up on more than 118 tips, including ones from throughout the nation; interviewed current and past roommates, students and teachers at Laguna-Salgado's school and all known sex offenders in the area; and conducted searches in the Provo area, including along the routes the missing woman might have taken at the time she vanished, from 100 North and 400 West to 1800 North and 450 West. 
 
 Police also said they have gotten assistance from numerous other agencies, including the FBI and Homeland Security, and notified immigration authorities to monitor for any border crossings. 
 
 In the posting, Provo police say that to avoid compromising the investigation, they did not list all of their efforts. Lt. Brandon Post had said after an April 25 search of the various routes and of portions of the Provo River Trail that detectives were looking at a "couple of things" that were found, but he declined to give further details. 
 
 According to her relatives, Laguna-Salgado went on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her native Mexico after getting a college degree and had come to Utah to study English. She was in Provo for less than a month before disappearing and had not yet learned the language. 
 
 Laguna-Salgado was last seen at about 1:30 p.m. on April 16, walking home from the Nomen Global Language School at 384 W. Center St. to her apartment. Since then, she has not shown up at class or her job as a waitress, according to police, who said she does not own a car. 
 
 At an April 24 news conference, Provo Police Chief John King said there was no proof Laguna-Salgado was abducted and nothing to indicate foul play. But investigators were concerned, he said, because she typically was in touch with her family every day. The chief also said there had been no activity on her cellphone or her credit cards. 
 
 The missing woman's uncle, Rosemberg Salgado — flanked by kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart and her father, Ed Smart — made a tearful plea at that news conference for help finding his niece. 
 
 Laguna-Salgado had mentioned that someone from school was "bugging" her to go out with him, Salgado said, but she wanted to focus on her studies and declined. 
 
 The requests for help have drawn hundreds of volunteers who have participated in searches, handed out fliers, spread the word about the missing woman on social media, and donated printing services and reward money. Many have never met Laguna-Salgado or members of her family but wanted to help. 
 
 One volunteer, Sylvia Haro, who has been helping to arrange news conferences and let the community know about Laguna-Salgado, said she felt like she needed to assist the family. 
 
 "I have a daughter who's about her age and I would want everyone looking if that happened to me," Haro said Friday. 
 
 She said the police are in constant contact with family members, who are "very supportive" of their efforts but get a little frustrated when they feel some tips are not being taken seriously. 
 
 "All they want is Elizabeth back," Haro said. ||||| Ed Smart’s big screen mission to stop child sex trafficking 
 
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 Editor’s Note: Read a review of “The Abolitionists,” from EastIdahoNews.com Film Critic Tony Potter. 
 
 REXBURG — Ed Smart, the father of a Utah teenager who was kidnapped and found nine months later, visited east Idaho Thursday to attend a screening of a documentary about child sex trafficking. 
 
 Smart’s daughter, Elizabeth, was forced from her Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002. Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee are currently in prison for kidnapping the then 14-year-old child. 
 
 “When Elizabeth was abducted do we think of her being enslaved?” Ed Smart asked during a conversation with EastIdahoNews.com. “She absolutely was for nine months. She was assaulted once twice a day for almost every day of the nine months she was gone.” 
 
 Smart is now on a mission to rescue children from sex trafficking. He’s working with Operation Underground Railroad – a nonprofit group traveling around the world to save kids forced into the sex trade. 
 
 “It is more common,” Smart said. “Any time you have a resort area more than likely trafficking is going on there. Any time there’s a big sporting event in the United States you can believe trafficking is going on.” 
 
 Operation Underground Railroad has produced a new documentary called “The Abolitionists.” It shows investigators rescuing endangered children and going after the adult perpetrators around the world. 
 
 “Usually when an operation starts we start working with the U.S. Embassy and we determine who are the vetted law enforcement agencies that we can trust,” Smart said. “In a number of countries where they have laws that have never been implemented this will be the first time the prosecutions of those pimps has actually happened.” 
 
 Authorities estimate two million children worldwide are being trafficked for sex. 
 
 Smart said it’s happening here and the film gives parents a chance to speak with their own kids about the problem. 
 
 For Smart this project is personal as he honors his own daughter who survived the unthinkable. 
 
 “Elizabeth is great,” Smart said. “She just had a baby girl named Chloe about three months ago. We want all of those people that have been victimized out there to be survivors. We want them to find their dreams and find that new hope in life that helps them become the best and the most they can be.” 
 
 “The Abolitionists” will be shown at Fat Cats movie theatre in Rexburg on Thursday, May 28 at 5:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 7:45 p.m., and 8.15 p.m.. Admission is free and a question and answer session will follow each screening. 
 
 To watch the entire uncut interview with Smart, click here.
– Elizabeth Smart has been guarding her private life pretty well from the media, it seems—considering that the Utah activist had a baby girl named Chloe three months ago, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. "It is totally private," says her father, Ed Smart. "This is something she is keeping to herself and not trying to have out there." Ed first let the news slip about his daughter, who was kidnapped from her home in 2002 and held for nine months, while promoting a new film about child sex-trafficking called The Abolitionists. "Elizabeth is great," he told East Idaho News last week. "She just had a baby girl named Chloe about three months ago." Now 27, Elizabeth also makes appearances to advocate for girls and women trapped in the horrors of sex trafficking. She recently joined her father in speaking out for Utah woman Elizabeth Laguna-Salgado, 26, who vanished while walking in downtown Provo in April, the Tribune reports. As for the baby news, it's not a total surprise: Elizabeth Smart married her Scottish boyfriend Matthew Gilmour three years ago, and Ed Smart recently posted a photo of himself with a baby girl on social media, E! News reports. (Click to see what two of the former Cleveland captives are up to.)