Putnam County is in northern Tennessee. Almost half of its population of about 81,000 reside in Cookeville, the county seat. Prostitution and child sex trafficking, both web- and business-based, have been identified as problems and generated numerous complaints from residents to law enforcement. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and the Cookeville Police Department have used […]
Faulkner County is located in Central Arkansas and has a population of about 125,000. Conway is the county seat and is located in the state’s most populous metropolitan statistical area, near Little Rock. The county has long-running problems associated with commercial sex activity, and during prostitution operations police often seize drugs such as heroin, methamphetamine, […]
Rock Springs is a city of approximately 24,000 residents in Southwestern Wyoming. It is the largest city in Sweetwater County, WY. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented in the city, generating complaints to local law enforcement. Among the more serious issues associated with the area’s commercial sex market are child sex trafficking and the targeted […]
Oneida County, Wisconsin has a population of about 38,000 and its county seat is the city of Rhinelander. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented problems within the county, and to address them, efforts to hold sex buyers accountable have been pursued. For example, in October 2014, two men were arrested in Oneida County during […]
Shawano County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was just over 40,000. Its county seat is Shawano. Shawano County is included in the Green Bay-Shawano, WI Combined Statistical Area. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county, and the problems and ancillary crimes it […]
Winnebago County, Wisconsin has a population of about 171,000. The county seat is Oshkosh, which has roughly 67,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been reported in the county since at least the 1970s, if not earlier. Among their efforts to reduce commercial sex and trafficking have been the use of tactics addressing demand. […]
Outagamie is a county in the northeast region of Wisconsin, located 100 miles north of Milwaukee, and has a population of over 192,000. Appleton is the county seat, and has approximately 73,000 of the county’s residents. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been well-documented in Appleton, surrounding communities, and unincorporated areas of the county. To […]
Door County, Wisconsin is on a peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Its population is approximately 28,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county. Consumer-level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies. Demand reduction tactics used in the town […]
Henrico is the name used by local law enforcement and the U.S. Postal Service for several distinct areas in unincorporated parts of Henrico County, Virginia, near the city of Richmond. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in this unincorporated community, and have generated complaints to local officials. Stings have been conducted to curb […]
Franklin County is a county located in the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia, and has a population of about 56,000. Its county seat is Rocky Mount, and it is part of the Roanoke, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity in the county are well-documented. For example, in 2013 four people were arrested […]
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