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Panama City is located in the Florida Panhandle along U.S. Route 98, about midway between Tallahassee and Pensacola, It is the county seat of Bay County and has a population of roughly 36,000 residents. The Panama City Police Department has fielded numerous complaints about prostitution from residents and businesses for decades, and sex trafficking is […]
Palmer has a population of approximately 6,000 residents and is the ninth largest city in Alaska. The community is located 42 miles northeast of Anchorage, and serves as the goverment seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Prostitution and sexual trafficking activity has been documented in Palmer and in other areas of the Mat-Su Valley. Violence against […]
Palm Beach County is a county of approximately 1.5 million residents located on the eastern shore of Florida. Prostitution and sex trafficking are longstanding problems in the area. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide, and serial killers who […]
Palm Bay is a city of just over 100,000 residents, located in Brevard County, Florida near Melbourne. Local law enforcement’s responses to prostitution are in part driven by complaints from businesses and residents. Cases of sex trafficking and prostitution-related violence and production child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, often called “child pornography” in state law) have […]
Oxnard is a city in Ventura County with about 202,000 residents, located to the northwest of Los Angeles, on the Pacific coast near the city of Ventura, California. Prostitution has been a documented, persistent problem in the city for decades, and has included cases of child sex trafficking. News archives discuss local prostitution in 1902, […]
Overland Park is the second-most populous city in the state of Kansas, with about 197,000 residents. It is located in Johnson County in the southwestern suburbs of Kansas City, Kansas. Prostitution and sex trafficking (of both adults and minors) have been reported in the community for several years. Law enforcement has reported that complaints from residents […]
Ouachita Parish has a population of just over 159,000 residents, and is located in northern Louisiana. In addition to city-level efforts in the parish’s largest communities (Monroe and West Monroe), the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office occasionally conducts anti-prostitution operations in the area. Complaints from the residents and businesses within the area have played a role […]
Orlando is located in Orange County in central Florida, with a population of approximately 307,000. City officials and residents have identified prostitution and sex trafficking as substantial problems locally. For example, prostituted women have been murdered in Orlando, and men have been arrested for child endangerment for having toddlers present in their vehicles while they […]
Orem is a community in Utah, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City along Interstate 15, near Provo. Orem has a population of roughly 98,000. Prostitution activity, as well as cases of solicitation and the commercial sexual exploitation of minors, have been reported in the community for more than 40 years. Consumer level demand […]
Orange County is an area in central Florida with a population of roughly 1,430,000. The major population center of the county is Orlando, and it covers unincorporated areas and smaller cities. Prostitution is related to numerous problems in the county, including child sex trafficking. For example, in February 2022, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation arrested […]
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