Floyd County, GA
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Auto Seizure | ✓ |
Buyer Arrests | ✓ |
Cameras | ✓ |
Community Service | ✓ |
Employment Loss | ✓ |
Identity Disclosure | ✓ |
IT Based Tactics | ✓ |
John School | ✓ |
Letters | ✓ |
License Suspension | ✓ |
Neighborhood Action | ✓ |
Public Education | ✓ |
Reverse Stings | ✓ |
SOAP Orders | ✓ |
Web Stings | ✓ |
Floyd County is located in northwestern Georgia and has a population of roughly 99,000. The county seat is Rome, a city of approximately 38,000 residents. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been reported in Rome and throughout the region for several decades. In the early 1970s, for example, Rome was the operating base for at least two distinct prostitution networks, both of which recruited and compelled minors into prostitution in the city and surrounding areas. The community has also reported cases of prostitution-related violence.
In an effort to curtail prostitution and its effects, the Rome Police Department and Floyd County Police Department have occasionally targeted sex buyers for arrest. In September 1997, RPD officers apprehended six sex buyers during a sting operation along Blanche Avenue after the department received complaints from residents. All of the men’s names were released to the public. In August 2014, the Floyd County Police Department launched an anti-prostitution investigation in coordination with the Rome Parole Office. According to media reports, “parole officers called [the FCPD] when they found information related to prostitution” during a “routine check.” Floyd County Police then set up a sting at a local motel, wherein they “made calls” to both suspected prostituted people and sex buyers. “Officers [apparently] called some men, using numbers they’d obtained through the parole check.” All of the individuals’ names were released to the public.
In May 2019, ten people were arrested in Floyd County as part of a multi-state child exploitation sting. They were identified in news releases, along with specific charges and mug shots in the Rome News-Tribune and other outlets. “Operation Southern Impact III” netted 82 arrests across eight southeastern states, according to a release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The operation focused on those possessing and distributing child pornography and those who sexually exploit children in other ways using technology and the internet. Throughout Georgia, there were 31 arrests, including seven arrested for traveling to meet a minor to have sex.
Key Partners
- Floyd County Police Department
- Rome Police Department
- Rome Parole Office
- Hall County Sheriff’s Office
- Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
- Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Key Sources
Reverse Stings with Identity Disclosure:
- “Prostitution Crackdown Nets Six Men”, Rome News-Tribune, September 18 1996.
- “10 Arrested on Prostitution Related Charges at Rodeway Inn”, Rome News-Tribune, August 16 2014.
Web-Based Reverse Stings, Identity Disclosure:
- https://www.11alive.com/10-in-floyd-county-among-dozens-arrested-in-multi-state-child-sex-sting(2019)
Sex Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation in the Area:
- “Three Arrested… Prostitution Ring Broken by Officers”, Rome News-Tribune, September 29 1964.
- “Man Draws Two-Year Term in Prostitution Charges”, Rome News-Tribune, April 23 1968.
- “Probation Officer Linked to Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, June 6 1970.
- “Jury Convicts Rome Pair on Prostitution Charges”, Rome News-Tribune, June 9 1970.
- “Grand Jury Expected to Air Vice Charges; Allegations of Wrong Doing Made during Atlanta Trial”, Rome News-Tribune, August 16 1970.
- “Four Persons Charged in Prostitution Raid”, Rome News-Tribune, March 10 1971.
- “Testimony Begins in Trial… Johnson Identified as Head of Prostitution Ring”, Rome News-Tribune, July 14 1976.
- “Forced into Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, July 15 1976.
- “Prostitution Trial under Way in Georgia”, Rome News-Tribune, July 16 1976.
- “Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; Rehearings Denied Prostitution Ring”, Rome News-Tribune, November 14 1978.
Background on Prostitution in the Area:
- “Rome Seeks Federal Aid on Maple Street; Crackdown by Police Ordered on Alleged Brothels in City”, Rome News-Tribune, July 19 1966.
- “Grand Jury Expected to Air Vice Charges; Allegations of Wrong Doing Made during Atlanta Trial”, Rome News-Tribune, August 16 1970.
- “Floyd Grand Jury Opens Work Today; Panel to Probe Alleged Vice, Prostitution Links in County”, Rome News-Tribune, September 14 1970.
- “Four Persons Charged in Prostitution Raid”, Rome News-Tribune, March 10 1971.
- “Drug, Prostitution Cases Heard in Court”, Rome News-Tribune, June 26 1974.
- “Prostitution ‘Ring’ Broken”, Florence Times Daily, February 10 1976.
- “Testimony Begins in Trial… Johnson Identified as Head of Prostitution Ring”, Rome News-Tribune, July 14 1976.
- “Police Here Not Vigorous in Going after Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, June 8 1988.
- “Woman Held on Prostitution Charge”, Rome News-Tribune, February 7 1991.
- “Floyd Pushing for Amendment; Police Bust Prostitution House”, Rome News-Tribune, March 10 1993.
- “Prostitution Arrest”, Rome News-Tribune, July 21 1994.
- “Prostitution Arrests”, Rome News-Tribune, November 8 1994.
- “Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, February 27 1997.
- “Prostitution Stop”, Rome News-Tribune, May 11 1997.
- “Police Arrest Five Women on Prostitution Charges”, Rome News-Tribune, May 16 1997.
- “Woman Charged with Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, March 5 2004.
- “Man Dies in Barlow County Wreck; Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, August 5 2005.
- “Man Charged with Theft, Drugs; Prostitution”, Rome News-Tribune, August 9 2005.
- “Police Bust Prostitution Ring in Rome, Georgia”, NBC/WRCB-TV 3, July 11 2008.
- “Prostitution Arrest”, Rome News-Tribune, August 4 2008.
- “Cedartown Woman Arrested in Rome for Prostitution and Drugs”, Atlanta Examiner, July 29 2010.
- “Police: Undercover Officer Arrests Four on Prostitution Charges”, Rome News-Tribune, August 6 2010.
- “Tuesday Night Prostitution Sting Nets 2 Arrests”, Rome News-Tribune, July 30 2014.
Documented Violence against Individuals Engaged in Prostitution in the Area:
State | Georgia |
Type | County |
Population | 98771 |
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