Ramsey County has a population of approximately 543,000, and its largest city and county seat is St. Paul, Minnesota’s state capital. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul metro region. St. Paul has experienced a wide range of problems associated […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis (in Hennepin County) and St. Paul (Ramsey County) have well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking dating back to at least the 1970s, and the local and regional commercial sex markets have involved the rape, assault, the murder of prostituted women, and the forced sex trafficking of pregnant women. Hennepin […]
Shelburne is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont. It is a suburb of Burlington located on the shore of Lake Champlain, and has a population of roughly 7,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the area have been well-documented for over a decade. For example, in February 2013, a man was sentenced in U.S. District Court […]
Loveland is a city of roughly 82,000 residents, situated about 60 miles north of Denver, CO in Larimer County, CO. For at least two decades, instances of prostitution, particularly those arranged online and conducted within city hotels and adult-oriented businesses, have been reported throughout the county. Several cases of prostitution, solicitation of prostitution, commercial sexual […]
Estes Park is a city of roughly 6,400 residents, situated about 65 miles north of Denver, CO and is located in Larimer County, CO. For at least two decades, instances of prostitution, particularly those arranged online and conducted within city hotels and adult-oriented businesses, have been reported throughout the county. Several cases of solicitation, commercial […]
Larimer County is a county of approximately 360,000 residents in the U.S. state of Colorado, situated roughly 60 miles north of Denver, CO. The largest city and county seat is Fort Collins, CO. Larimer County and its municipalities have documented substantial prostitution and sex trafficking activity especially in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park. For […]
Minnesota’s Stearns County is located about 60 miles northwest of the Twin Cities. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking, often arranged online, have been reported throughout the county, and within its municipalities such as St. Cloud and Waite Park. In December 2017, Stearns County received a two-year state grant to convert a year-old sex-trafficking task […]
Lane County is located in Western Oregon, along the Interstate 5 corridor. Roughly half of its population of about 383,000 resides in the county seat of Eugene, the second largest city in Oregon. Commercial sex is well documented in the central city, and in the surrounding towns and unincorporated areas. Among the more serious problems […]
Burleigh County is a county of approximately 96,000 residents in North Dakota. It contains the state’s capitol city, Bismarck. The county has a history of problems associated with prostitution, and more recently has documented cases of sex trafficking. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is the sex trafficking of […]
Douglas County contains over one-fourth of the Nebraska’s residents (566,000), most living in Omaha (population 480,000), the county seat and the state’s largest city. The county also includes unincorporated areas and smaller cities and towns, such as Ralston, Bennington, and Waterloo. Since prostitution and sex trafficking operations cross jurisdictional boundaries, many of the law enforcement […]
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