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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 […]
San Diego, a city of 1.4 million residents in Southern California, has had well-documented and serious problems associated prostitution and sex trafficking for many decades. A large military presence has helped to boost the demand for commercial sex in the city, and in addition to the large supply of domestic victims, the proximity to Mexico […]
San Bernardino is a city of over 215,000 residents, located in the Riverside-San Bernardino metropolitan area of California. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified as substantial problems (including the homicide of prostituted women) in the city and surrounding area. In an effort to combat consumer-level demand for commercial sex, the San Bernardino Police Department has […]
San Antonio is a large city in southern Texas’ Bexar County, and with a population of over 1.5 million residents. San Antonio is the largest city in southern Texas, the second largest city in the state of Texas, and the 7th largest city in the United States. Exacerbated by the city’s location, prostitution and sex […]
Salt Lake County is located in northern Utah. Its population of approximately 1,185,000 includes Salt Lake City and many suburbs and unincorporated areas in the metropolitan region around the state capitol, such as Midvale, Sandy, South Jordan, and Taylorsville. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in this area for at least six decades. […]
Salt Lake City, is the capitol and the most populous city of the state of Utah. It has a population of approximately 200,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to […]
Salem is city that serves both as the state capital of Oregon and the county seat of Marion County, OR, and has a population of approximately 178,ooo residents. Documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in the community, and residents living in areas affected by prostitution have reported being propositioned by potential sex […]
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