Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and has a population of about 9,000. The community is about 15 miles south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 50 miles north of Philadelphia. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the borough and surrounding communities, and other areas of Bucks County, frequently concentrated in and around hotels […]
Box Butte County has a population of about 11,000 residents and is located in southwestern Nebraska, near the Wyoming border. Its county seat is Alliance. Authorities at local, state, and federal levels have identified the county’s proximity to Interstate 80 (specifically, located on a highway connecting Interstate’s 25 and 80) to be the primary factor […]
Oneida County is located in upstate New York and has a population of approximately 231,000. Its two largest cities are Utica (the county seat) and Rome. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and associated violent crimes are well-documented problems in those cities and in surrounding areas of the county. For example, in 2003, a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim […]
Grand Forks County is located in Eastern North Dakota and has a population of about 70,000 residents. Its county seat and largest city is Grand Forks. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been known to occur in the city and surrounding areas dating back to the late 1800s when the railroads were being built. Prostitution increased […]
Pearl River County, Mississippi, is part of the greater New Orleans metropolitan area, and is located approximately 45 miles from New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Gulfport–Biloxi. The county has a population of about 57,000 residents. Picayune is the largest city in the county. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in […]
Harrison County is located in southern Mississippi, and has a population of about 210,000. Its largest cities are Biloxi and Gulfport. Prostitution activity, including cases of alleged sex trafficking of adults and minors and assaults on individuals exploited in commercial sex, has been reported in the county for decades. Businesses and residents lodge complaints about […]
Menominee County is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and has a population of about 23,000. The county seat is Menominee, a city of about 9,000 residents. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates […]
Floyd County is located in northwestern Georgia and has a population of roughly 99,000. The county seat is Rome, a city of approximately 38,000 residents. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been reported in Rome and throughout the region for several decades. In the early 1970s, for example, Rome was the operating base for at […]
Payette County is a county in Southwestern Idaho of roughly 24,000 residents, and its county seat and largest city is Payette, ID. The county lies along U.S. Route 95 in the Treasure Valley of southwest Idaho, about 50 miles west of Boise, ID, and borders the state of Oregon. Additionally, the county is part of […]
Tom Green County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population is roughly 119,000. Its county seat and largest city is San Angelo. Tom Green County is located in west-central Texas and is included in the San Angelo, TX metropolitan statistical area. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity […]
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