Butte has a population of about 34,000 residents and is the county seat of Silver Bow County, MT. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city, surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Silver Bow County. Some accounts from 1910 report that the city’s red-light district operated 24/7 in three shifts, and that […]
Cayuga County is located in upstate New York, abutting Lake Ontario and near Syracuse. Its population is approximately 76,000, and its county seat and largest city is Auburn. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the county, and to address them, efforts have been made to combat consumer-level demand. For example, in September 2015, […]
Onondaga County is in upstate New York; its population center is the city of Syracuse. The county is home to approximately 479,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking have posed persistent and visible problems in the area for decades. Among the issues reported are several documented cases of sex trafficking of both minors and adults and […]
Manassas is a town in northern Virginia with a population of approximately 43,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the town, surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. This activity, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious […]
Gaithersburg is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, with a population of about 69,000 residents. Local prostitution activity has generated numerous complaints to police, and these complaints have played a role in police devoting the resources to prostitution operations. Sex trafficking has also been known to occur in the city. For example, in 2005 federal […]
Elkton is a town of roughly 16,000 residents in Cecil County, Maryland. Local prostitution activity generates numerous complaints to police, and these complaints play a role in police devoting the resources to prostitution operations. Sex trafficking is also known to occur in the area. For example, in 2016 an Elkton man was charged with human […]
Iowa City is a city of about 76,000 residents located in Johnson County, in eastern Iowa. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well documented problems in Iowa City. For example, in March, 2018, an Iowa City man was arrested and charged with human trafficking, pimping/sex trafficking, domestic abuse/assault impeding air/blood flow, false imprisonment, and pandering […]
Pennington County is the second-most populous county in South Dakota, with a population of approximately 113,000 residents. Its county seat and largest city is Rapid City, SD. The county is located near the eastern slope of the Black Hills mountain range, and accommodates most of the tourist flow to Mt. Rushmore. Prostitution and sex trafficking […]
Weber County, Utah is the state’s fourth-most populous county, most living in the city of Ogden, the home of Weber State University. Police have investigated child sex trafficking rings operating within the county (e.g., in Ogden, Riverdale, West Haven), local prostitution involving adults has been widespread, and there have been cases of homicides of prostituted women. […]
Mesa County is a county of approximately 156,000 residents located along Colorado’s border with Utah, west of Denver along Interstate 70. The county seat and largest city is Grand Junction, CO. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the county, and have generated numerous complaints by community member to the police. For example, in […]
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