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Blair is a small city of about 8,000 residents, located in Washington County, Nebraska, north of Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Though prostitution reports in the community appear limited, at least two cases have been documented involving the arrests of adults for purchasing access to sexually abuse minors locally. In April 2004, Blair Police Department […]
Muskegon Heights is a small city of close to 10,000 residents, situated northwest of Grand Rapids near Muskegon and Norton Shores in Muskegon County, Michigan. Prostitution has posed chronic and visible problems in the community for several years. In 2012, for example, two adults and one juvenile female were convicted of kidnapping a woman involved […]
Stroudsburg is a city of about 6,000 residents, located in eastern Pennsylvania’s Monroe County roughly an hour’s drive southeast of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Prostitution activity, often arranged online and occurring within local businesses and hotels, has been reported in the city for many years. Minors have also been discovered during prostitution stings. In March 2015, […]
Coeur d’Alene is a city of approximately 56,000 residents in northwestern Idaho, located in Kootenai County roughly 30 miles east of Spokane, WA. Sporadic cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been reported in the community for at least 25 years. The city and surrounding area has reported cases involving individuals using massage parlors and […]
Sidney is a small city of roughly 20,000 residents, located south of Lima in west-central Ohio’s Shelby County. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city and surrounding areas, including a local massage parlor being shut down by the sheriff’s office after a human trafficking investigation. Among its efforts to reduce prostitution in […]
Bettendorf is a city of approximately 40,000 residents, located in eastern Iowa’s Scott County. The community is part of the “Quad Cities,” a group of five cities along the Iowa-Illinois border that include Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa, and Moline and East Moline, Illinois. The city also hosts the Isle of Capri, a large casino that […]
Clifton Park is a town of approximately 38,000 residents, located in southern Saratoga County near Albany, Schenectady, Colonie, Troy, and Saratoga Springs, New York. In an effort to reduce prostitution activity in the town, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office has conducted at least one reverse sting. In July 2014, SCSO deputies conducted an eight-hour web-based […]
Great Falls is a city of approximately 60,000 residents in West-Central Montana. It’s the largest city and county seat of Cascade County, MT. The local commercial sex market and crimes associated with it—including cases of rape committed against prostituted women—have been well-documented. In 1888, when the city was just four years old, an ordinance was […]
Gretna is a city of approximately 17,600 residents, located just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans in Jefferson Parish, LA. Problems with prostitution and sex trafficking have been reported in the area for decades. This activity and its ancillary crimes have resulted in residential complaints to local law enforcement. The local sex trade has […]
Charleroi is a borough of about 4,000 residents, located south of Pittsburgh in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Despite the borough’s small population size, prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been documented. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. In effort to combat prostitution and sex trafficking activity, […]
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