Santa Cruz is a coastal city of just under 63,000 residents, situated along the central California coast, south of San Jose. Local residents and law enforcement have reported numerous problems with prostitution, sex trafficking, and related crimes for at least two decades. Sex trafficked girls have been discovered during anti-prostitution investigations in the city on multiple occasions; in at […]
Santa Clara is a city within Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. The city has a population of approximately 127,000 residents. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law […]
Santa Ana is a city of approximately 310,000 residents, located in Orange County in southern California. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-known problems in the city and in the surrounding communities of Anaheim and Garden Grove, and many police responses to prostitution are driven from complaints from residents and businesses. Santa Ana had developed a […]
Sanford is a city in central Florida, near Orlando, with a population of approximately 61,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city, surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. This activity, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. A wide […]
Sandy is a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, with a population of approximately 97,000, situated in Salt Lake County. Prostitution has posed considerable problems in the community for decades, generating related cases of sex trafficking and sexual assault. In particular, multiple cases of the violent “forced prostitution” (i.e., sex trafficking”) of minors have been […]
San Rafael is a city of approximately 61,000 residents, located in the North Bay Area of Marin County, California. Like nearby Richmond and Vallejo, the city has a longstanding and well-documented problem with street prostitution, often involving minors. Since 1995, local law enforcement and members of the media have reported at least 13 cases of […]
San Luis Obispo is a city of approximately 43,000 residents, located roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in San Luis Obispo County, California. News reports of prostitution in the city date as far back as the early 20th century, and more recently, sex trafficking has been documented. There have been cases where San […]
San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, California,with a population of approximately 78,000. It is located on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast. Prostitution and the sex trafficking of minors have been identified in the city and surrounding areas of Alameda County. In […]
San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, which is located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay area. It is the third-largest city in California, with a population of just under one million. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been identified by law enforcement and residents as substantial problems in the […]
San Francisco is the leading population center of Northern California and the Bay Area, with a population of approximately 815,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city are well documented, long-standing problems locally, and have been linked to cases of serial killers targeting individuals selling sex, numerous additional murders, and assaults on sex buyers as […]
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