Franklin County is a county of about 52,000 residents located in northern Kentucky. Its county seat is Frankfort, the state capital. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented problems within the county since the 1980s. For example, in May 2016, a grand jury indicted a 69-year-old man on charges of kidnapping, a Class B felony, […]
Woodbury County has approximately 106,000 residents, and is located in western Iowa along the Nebraska border, north of Omaha and south of Sioux Falls along Interstate 29. The county seat is Sioux City. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by law enforcement as problems in the cities and unincorporated areas of the county, and […]
Dubuque County, Iowa has a population of just under 100,000, and its county seat is the city of Dubuque. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents […]
Scott County is on the eastern edge of Iowa, on the Mississippi River, and has a population of about 174,000. The county seat is the city of Davenport, and is included in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution and child sex trafficking are documented problems within the county, and the Sheriff’s Office frequently […]
Cypress is an unincorporated community of almost 182,500 residents within Harris County, Texas, and is located completely inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston. The Cypress area is located along U.S. Highway 290, and is about twenty-five miles northwest of downtown Houston. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city […]
Madison County is located in North Carolina, within the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. It has a population of approximately 22,000. The county seat is the town of Marshall, which has a population of about 900. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been well-documented within the county and throughout the Asheville metro region. This activity and […]
Torrington is a city of about 35,000 residents located in the Northwest Hills region of Connecticut, in Litchfield County. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been documented in the city and surrounding region. For example, in 2010 state prosecutors charged a man with operating a high-profile prostitution ring in the rural areas of northwest Connecticut, […]
Washington County, Nebraska has a population of about 21,000 and is located in the northern part of the Omaha – Council Bluffs NE-IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its county seat is Blair, a city of less than 10,000 residents. Several investigations into prostitution and sex trafficking in the county have occurred, with at least two cases […]
Cheyenne County is located in southern Nebraska, within 10 miles of the Colorado state line. The county seat is the city of Sidney, and its population is just under 10,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been documented in that city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Cheyenne County. This activity and the […]
Lincoln County is in mid-coastal Maine, has a population of approximately 34,000, and includes the communities of Damariscotta and Milbridge. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of the county, and this activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from […]
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