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Macon County is located in central Illinois, east of Springfield, and has a population of approximately 100,000 residents. The largest city and county seat is Decatur. Serious problems related to prostitution, including the trafficking and exploitation of minors for commercial sex, have been reported in the county for over two decades. For example, in 1991, […]
Schenectady County is located about 20 miles northwest of Albany in upstate New York. Its population is about 158,000, and its county seat is the city of Schenectady (with about 67,000 of the county’s residents). Street prostitution has been reported in Schenectady for over forty years, and in the early 1980s police had identified the […]
Glen Dale is a city in Marshall County, West Virginia, located along the Ohio River. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the town’s population is approximately 1,500. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the region, and ancillary crimes it generates complaints to law enforcement agencies. Consumer-level demand provides the […]
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 […]
Newburgh Heights is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with a population of about 2,000 residents. 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 result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. […]
Arapahoe County the third-most populous county in Colorado, with approximately 655,000 residents. The county seat is Littleton, and its most populous city is Aurora (with over 369,000 residents). Parts of the county have been well-known outdoor prostitution “strolls.” Prostitution and associated street crime and blight have been concentrated on Colfax Avenue, which runs through both […]
Alameda County is included in the San Francisco Bay Area, occupying much of the East Bay region in Northern California. The county’s population is about 1.649 million, and the county seat is the city of Oakland. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented throughout the county for decades. While there are areas of affluence, […]
Alamance County is located in central North Carolina, and has a population of about 171,000. Throughout the county’s communities (e.g., Burlington, Mebane, Graham) and unincorporated areas, local prostitution generates numerous complaints to police and is linked to a number of other serious crime types, including child endangerment and sex trafficking. In May 2019, Alamance County deputies […]
Situated on the edge of the Cascade mountain range in Central Oregon, along the Deschutes River, Deschutes County has about 204,000 residents. Its government seat and principle population center is the city of Bend. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results […]
Winter Park is a city of about 29,000 residents in Orange County, Florida. Orange County is an area in central Florida with a population of over 1 million, with the major population center of Orlando and covering unincorporated areas and smaller cities. The suburb of Winter Park is located just northeast of Orlando. The presence […]
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