Union is a city of approximately 8,000 residents, located in Union County, South Carolina. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the […]
Northampton County, Pennsylvania is located in the Lehigh Valley area, and has a population of about 314,000. The county seat is the city of Easton, and other substantial cities and townships include Bethlehem Township, Bethlehem, Palmer Township, and Hanover Township All of these communities have reported serious problems related to prostitution– particularly sex sales occurring […]
Lafayette Parish is a county in Louisiana located an hour west of Baton Rouge. It has a population of roughly 244,000, and its government seat is the city of Lafayette. Prostitution and related activity have been well-documented in the cities and surrounding areas of the parish. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it […]
Bossier Parish is located in northwest Louisiana, in the Shreveport metropolitan area and has a population of roughly 130,000 residents. The government seat is Bossier City, LA. Prostitution activity have been well-documented in the cities and surrounding areas of the parish. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to […]
Will County is in northeastern Illinois, in the Chicago metro area, and has a population of about 700,000 (the fourth-most populous county in the state). The county seat is the city of Joliet, and other communities include Romeoville and Matteson. Prostitution activity have been well-documented in the cities and unincorporated areas of the county. This […]
Limestone County is part of the Huntsville, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area, and has a population of about 108,000. The county seat is Athens, a city located along Interstate 65 in northern Alabama, north of Birmingham and near Huntsville. Another city in the county that has addressed demand is Decatur. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have […]
Allegheny County is a county of roughly 1.28 million residents, in western Pennsylvania, and contains Pittsburgh, PA, the second-largest city in the state. The county has experienced a wide array of problems associated with commercial sex, including the homicides of persons being sold in commercial sex (including 12 of which may have been serial homicides […]
Fulton County is located in North-Central Georgia with a population of about 1.066 million. Its county seat and largest city is Atlanta, and other substantial cities within Fulton County include College Park, Johns Creek, and Alpharetta. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented and longstanding problems throughout the cities and unincorporated areas of Fulton County. For […]
Passaic County, New Jersey is located just west of New York City and includes the cities of Passaic, Paterson and Clifton. The county has a population of about 500,000. Local residents and law enforcement officials have reported problems with prostitution in the cities and unincorporated areas of the county, both at street level and in […]
Kane County has a population of roughly 532,000 residents, making it the fifth-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Geneva and its largest city is Aurora. The county is located about 40 miles west of Chicago, near Naperville. Several of the cities in Kane County have pursued anti-demand approaches to combating prostitution and […]
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