Billings County is located in western North Dakota, along Interstate 94 near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. With a population of less than 1,000, the town of Medora, ND serves as the county seat and is the only incorporated community within the county. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in Medora and unincorporated areas of the […]
Delhi is a town in Delaware County, New York. The town has a population of fewer than 3,000 residents and contains The State University of New York at Delhi. Local law enforcement has stated that prostitution has not appeared to be a severe problem in the town over the prior 15 years, but it does […]
Pearl River County, Mississippi, is part of the greater New Orleans metropolitan area, and is located approximately 45 miles from New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Gulfport–Biloxi. The county has a population of about 57,000 residents. Picayune is the largest city in the county. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in […]
Harrison County is located in southern Mississippi, and has a population of about 210,000. Its largest cities are Biloxi and Gulfport. Prostitution activity, including cases of alleged sex trafficking of adults and minors and assaults on individuals exploited in commercial sex, has been reported in the county for decades. Businesses and residents lodge complaints about […]
Menominee County is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and has a population of about 23,000. The county seat is Menominee, a city of about 9,000 residents. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates […]
Floyd County is located in northwestern Georgia and has a population of roughly 99,000. The county seat is Rome, a city of approximately 38,000 residents. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been reported in Rome and throughout the region for several decades. In the early 1970s, for example, Rome was the operating base for at […]
San Benito County is located in the Coast Range Mountains of California, and has a population of roughly 67,000. The county seat is the city Hollister. Prostitution activity has been well-documented throughout the county. For example, in 2008, police reported that Hollister had seen gang violence resulting from a turf battle between rival factions of […]
Payette County is a county in Southwestern Idaho of roughly 24,000 residents, and its county seat and largest city is Payette, ID. The county lies along U.S. Route 95 in the Treasure Valley of southwest Idaho, about 50 miles west of Boise, ID, and borders the state of Oregon. Additionally, the county is part of […]
Uvalde County is located in south-central Texas and as of 2019, has a population of roughly 25,000. Its county seat is the city of Uvalde. In 2017, the Texas Attorney General announced that the Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) of his office arrested a 48-year-old resident of Uvalde on a warrant for Compelling Prostitution. The suspect’s […]
Hutto is a city of about 31,000 residents in Williamson County, Texas. It is part of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area, in central Texas about midway between Killeen and Austin. Other cities in county area include Georgetown, a city of about 67,000 residents. Prostitution and child sex trafficking are known to be well-established problems in […]
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