Rockdale County, Georgia, is located about 25 miles east of Atlanta; its county seat is the city of Conyers. Rockdale has a population of approximately 94,000. A number of problems associated with local prostitution have been documented, including a case of child endangerment involving young children, rape, robbery, kidnapping, assault, and human trafficking charges have been seen in the county. The Rockland County Sheriff’s Office has collaborated with local police and federal and state agencies on operations targeting consumer-level demand. For example, in late February 2014, the CPD coordinated with deputies from the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office to conduct a web-based sting that resulted in the arrest of three prostituted women, two male sex buyers, and one pimp. Although law enforcement provided limited details about the logistics of the operation, news reports stated that undercover officers “utilized social media… to communicate with several individuals and ultimately arrest them.” During the operation, officers discovered a 4-year-old child in the back seat of one of the arrestee’s vehicles. In the days that followed, a representative from the RCSO stated that “although the charges [associated with prostitution] are misdemeanors, operations that target prostitution and pimping can help prevent more dangerous crimes, such as assaults, rapes, and robberies that often go hand in hand with these crimes.”  One of the two men arrested during the reverse sting was found to be a “convicted felon with previous arrests in multiple states for trafficking in cocaine, escape, robbery, and rape.”

In March 2014, the CPD conducted two additional reverse stings using online advertisements, resulting in the arrest of 10 sex buyers. In early June 2015, 11 additional buyers were arrested following a joint reverse sting led by CPD officers and officers from the neighboring Covington Police Department. Following each investigation, all arrestees’ identities were released to the media. In December 2015, Conyers and Covington’s police again teamed, intercepting 17 men during a web-based reverse sting at a local hotel. Officers reported that the “armed robbery of a woman advertising on an online escort services page” had prompted the sting. All of the arrestees’ identities were again publicized in the press. In August 2019, five men were arrested and transported to the Rockdale County Jail; they were issued two citations for disorderly conduct: One for communicating with a person within the city for the purposes of prostitution and the second for traveling to Conyers for the purpose of pandering. They were also issued criminal trespass warnings and told not to return to the motel (a limited version of the SOAP or “stay-away” order).