Aiken County is located in the Western portion of South Carolina, and has a population of roughly 165,000. It is part of the Augusta/Richmond County, GA metropolitan area, which is directly across the Savannah River (which marks the border between Georgia and South Carolina) from Aiken County. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in […]
Minnesota’s Stearns County is located about 60 miles northwest of the Twin Cities. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking, often arranged online, have been reported throughout the county, and within its municipalities such as St. Cloud and Waite Park. In December 2017, Stearns County received a two-year state grant to convert a year-old sex-trafficking task […]
Prescott is the county seat and largest city in Yavapai County, located in central Arizona, north of Phoenix. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county, since the late 1800s. In contemporary times, this activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it […]
Wichita Falls is a city of approximately 105,000 residents, located in northern Texas. It is the county seat of Wichita County, TX, and the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its central business district is five miles from Sheppard Air Force Base, the largest technical training wing and a NATO jet pilot […]
Greenwood is a city of approximately 22,000 residents, located northwest of the center of Greenwood County, in the northwest portion of South Carolina. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law […]
Bend is a city with approximately 97,000 residents in central Oregon on the eastern edge of the Cascade mountain range, along the Deschutes River. It is the government seat and principle population center of Deschutes County, OR. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities. This activity and the problems […]
Lane County is located in Western Oregon, along the Interstate 5 corridor. Roughly half of its population of about 383,000 resides in the county seat of Eugene, the second largest city in Oregon. Commercial sex is well documented in the central city, and in the surrounding towns and unincorporated areas. Among the more serious problems […]
Thurston County, Washington has close to 300,000 residents and is located roughly 30 miles south of Seattle, past Tacoma, at the southern end of Puget Sound and along the Interstate 5 corridor. The county seat and its largest city is Olympia, the state capital, and includes smaller cities such as Tumwater, as well as smaller […]
DuBois is a city of roughly 7,500 residents in west central Pennsylvania. It is the most populous community in Clearfield County, PA, and is located about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Prostitution activity has been documented in the city for at least 40 years. This activity and its ancillary crimes has resulted in complaints to […]
Luzerne County is located in central Pennsylvania, and the city of Wilkes Barre is the county seat and population center. Other relatively populous communities within the county include Hazleton, Kingston, Nanticoke, and Pittston. The region has well-documented history of sex trafficking and prostitution activity. The county contained towns that were stops on a domestic sex […]
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