Fort Bend County is a county in Texas located in the greater Houston area with a population of approximately 859,000 residents. The county seat is Richmond, and its largest city is Sugar Land. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems within the county. Among the more serious crimes associated with the commercial sex market is […]
Tulsa County is located in northeastern Oklahoma, and has a population of roughly 673,000 residents, making it the second most populous county in Oklahoma. Its county seat and largest city is Tulsa, OK, the second-largest city in the state. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented problems in this county, and the Northeast region of […]
Located in southwestern Idaho, Caldwell is the government seat of Canyon County and has approximately 57,000 residents. Prostitution and associated problems, such as sex trafficking and child sexual abuse, have been documented in the area. For example, in December 2013, detectives with the Caldwell Police Street Crimes Unit arrested eight people after an undercover prostitution […]
With a population of approximately 73,000, Bismarck is the capitol of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. The city has a long history of prostitution and the problems associated with it, including sex trafficking and illicit massage businesses. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is child […]
Santa Clara County is located south of San Francisco, and has a population of about 1,936,000. The county seat and largest city is San Jose, the 10th most populous city in the United States. Other communities of note within the county include Milpitas and Campbell. The county has long-running, well-documented problems with commercial sex […]
Winona County is a county of just under 50,000 residents, located in southeastern Minnesota. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the community, and have generated complaints to law enforcement. In addition to overseeing or assisting with city-level anti-prostitution efforts in Winona, county local law enforcement agencies have conducted at least two reverse stings. […]
Muskegon Heights is a small city of close to 10,000 residents, situated northwest of Grand Rapids near Muskegon and Norton Shores in Muskegon County, Michigan. Prostitution has posed chronic and visible problems in the community for several years. In 2012, for example, two adults and one juvenile female were convicted of kidnapping a woman involved […]
Situation in Northeastern North Dakota, Williston has about 28,000 residents and is the county seat of Williams County. Due to the North Dakota oil boom, the city’s population nearly doubled between 2010 and 2020. This increased prostitution and sex trafficking of both adults and minors in the area, as well as community complaints to the […]
Cherokee County has a population of about 19,000 residents and and is situated in the “Four States” area of southwest Kansas. Prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in the county, and among the efforts to ameliorate the many resulting problems was one large-scale operation that targeted sex buyers as well as pimps and prostituted women, […]
St. Johnsbury is a community of about 6,000 residents in northeastern Vermont. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city for years. For example, in February, 2013, a man was sentenced in U.S. District Court for arranging customers for prostituted women who would perform sex acts at various Vermont dairy farms on up […]
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