Lemoore is a city in Kings County, CA, and has a population of approximately 26,000 residents. Lemoore is located 7.5 miles west-southwest of Hanford and is part of the Hanford-Corcoran MSA. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city. Among the more pervasive issues associated with the city’s commercial sex market […]
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County, CA, and has a population of approximately 153,000 residents. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas. Among the more serious issues associated with the city’s commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. […]
Wellington is a statutory town in Colorado, within Larimer County, and has a population of approximately 12,000 residents. It is located near the Wyoming border north of Denver and is part of the Fort Collins metropolitan area. For at least two decades, instances of prostitution, particularly those arranged online and conducted within city hotels and […]
Sugar Land is a city just southwest of Houston, TX, with a population of approximately 110,000 residents. It is the largest city in Fort Bend County, TX. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city and surrounding communities. Among the more serious issues associated with the city’s commercial sex market is […]
Upper Arlington is a city of about 36,000 residents in Franklin County, Ohio, located on the northwest side of the Columbus metropolitan area. Prostitution is a well-documented problem in the city. For example, in October 2013, an Upper Arlington woman was arrested and charged with prostitution after allegedly inviting men to have paid sex at […]
Los Angeles County, officially known as the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the state of California, with a population of more than ten million residents. The city of Los Angeles, CA is the county seat, the county’s largest city, […]
Claremont is a suburban city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, CA, about 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, CA. It has a population of approximately 36,000 residents. Problems associated with prostitution and sex trafficking have been well documented in the city. Among the more serious issues associated with the local commercial […]
Lonoke County is located in central Arkansas, about 30 miles east of Little Rock. It has a population of about 75,000 residents. The county seat is the town of Lonoke and its largest city is Cabot. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the area and most investigations begin with resident complaints. For example, […]
Boiling Spring Lakes is a city in Brunswick County, NC, and has a population of approximately 6,100 residents. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city and in surrounding areas. Among the more serious issues associated with the commercial sex market in the city is child sex trafficking. Consumer level demand […]
Brunswick County is a county located in the southernmost part of North Carolina and has a population of approximately 137,000 residents. Its county seat is Bolivia, NC. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented within the county. Among the more serious issues associated with the commercial sex market in the county is sex […]
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