Hastings is a city of roughly 22,000 residents, situated southeast of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Dakota and Washington counties, Minnesota. In early September 2015, local law enforcement launched a demand-driven investigation aimed at identifying and arresting individuals attempting to purchase access to sexually abuse minors. Officers with the Hastings, Minneapolis, and St. Paul Police […]

Waterville is a city of approximately 17,000 residents, located in Kennebec County, Maine, north of Augusta.  Prostitution activity has been well documented in the community for decades, and has generated complaints to police. The commercial sexual exploitation of minors has also been documented locally. In January, 2021, court documents were filed in pursuit of an […]

Augusta is a city of approximately 19,000 residents, located in Kennebec County, Maine, south of Waterville. Prostitution has been reported in the community for decades and has generated complaints to police, and local sex trafficking has also been documented. In their efforts to reduce prostitution activity and the crimes it generates – including human trafficking – […]

Grayslake is a village of roughly 20,000 residents in Lake County, Illinois, west of Waukegan. In addition to overseeing county-level anti-prostitution investigations, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office has staged at least one operation in Grayslake. In early September 2015, LCSO officers announced the completion of a web-based reverse sting in the village. The operation was […]

Glenwood is a small city of less than 3,000 residents, located in central Minnesota’s Pope County. In their efforts to reduce prostitution activity, local law enforcement have conducted at least one investigation to identify and arrest sex buyers. In August 2015, officers with the Pope County Sheriff’s Office, Glenwood and Starbuck Police Departments, and Minnesota […]

Tannersville is a village of approximately 3,000 residents, located in Monroe County, within Pennsylvania’s Pocono Township near Stroudsburg. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the village and in nearby communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from […]

Clarkstown is a city of approximately 86,000 residents, located in Rockland County, about 35 miles north of New York City. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city. For example, the use of a local motel for drugs, prostitution, and related crimes led to the arrest of at least 15 people. Authorities accused […]