Parker is a town and home rule municipality of approximately 60,000 residents, located in Colorado’s Douglas County about an hour’s drive southeast of Denver. Prostitution activity, at times involving minors, has been reported in the community for at least five years. In at least one instance, a local prostitution ring involving minors was linked to larger […]
Stratford is a town of approximately 52,000 residents, located in southern coastal Connecticut’s Fairfield County. As in the neighboring communities of Bridgeport and Milford, prostitution activity has been reported in the town for several years. It has also been linked to an array of violent crimes, including sex trafficking of minors, robberies and assaults on […]
Worthington is a small city of roughly 14,000 residents, located in southern Minnesota’s Nobles County. In 2015, the Executive Director of the Southwest Crisis Center confirmed that youth sexual exploitation and sex trafficking had occurred in southwest Minnesota in the past year, including in Nobles County. Among efforts to reduce prostitution in the community, local […]
Mason City is a city of approximately 27,000 residents, located in north-central Iowa’s Cerro Gordo County, about 80 miles northwest of Waterloo. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents […]
Chicopee is a city of roughly 55,000 residents, situated along the Connecticut River in south-central Massachusetts’ Hampden County, near Springfield. Among their efforts to curtail prostitution and sex trafficking locally, the Chicopee Police Department has conducted reverse stings targeting sex buyers. For example, in early June 2015, a collaborative operation was conducted by CPD officers, […]
Charlotte County is a county of roughly 187,000 residents, located south of Sarasota on Florida’s western coast. It contains the communities of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, among others. Commercial sex activity, often arranged online, has been reported in the county for years – particularly in storefront brothels such as massage businesses and nail salons. Minors […]
Baxter is a small city of less than 10,000 residents, situated in central Minnesota’s Crow Wing County, near Brainerd. In May 2015, officers with the Baxter and Brainerd Police Departments, and Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office, conducted what they described as a “first-of-its-kind” operation targeting sex buyers in the community. Law enforcement placed a decoy advertisement […]
Covington is a small city of just over 14,000 residents, situated 35 miles southeast of Atlanta in Newton County, Georgia, near Conyers. Prostitution, conducted both indoors and at street level, has been reported in the community in recent years and has generated complaints to law enforcement. In late May 2015, the Covington Police Department conducted […]
Clermont is a city of over 44,000 residents, located in suburban central Florida’s Lake County, west of Orlando and southeast of Leesburg. Prostitution activity has been reported in the community, and has generated complaints to law enforcement. Minors have also been recovered during anti-prostitution investigations in the city. Local law enforcement have conducted at least one reverse […]
Ellensburg is a city of approximately 20,000 residents in Washington state, located in Kittitas County, just north of Yakima. Prostitution activity has been documented throughout the city and in surrounding areas. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market are child sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, and violence committed against […]
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