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Marion County is a county of approximately 386,000 residents, located in central Florida. Ocala is the county seat and largest city. Prostitution has posed considerable problems in Ocala and the surrounding areas for several decades, and has included cases of sex trafficking of minors. In addition to supporting city-level efforts to reduce commercial sex activity, […]
Glenwood is a small city of less than 3,000 residents, located in central Minnesota’s Pope County. In their efforts to reduce prostitution activity, local law enforcement have conducted at least one investigation to identify and arrest sex buyers. In August 2015, officers with the Pope County Sheriff’s Office, Glenwood and Starbuck Police Departments, and Minnesota […]
Tannersville is a village of approximately 3,000 residents, located in Monroe County, within Pennsylvania’s Pocono Township near Stroudsburg. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the village and in nearby communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from […]
Clarkstown is a city of approximately 86,000 residents, located in Rockland County, about 35 miles north of New York City. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city. For example, the use of a local motel for drugs, prostitution, and related crimes led to the arrest of at least 15 people. Authorities accused […]
Lugoff is a small, census-designated place of about 9,000 residents, situated in Kershaw County, South Carolina, northeast of Columbia. In late July 2015, the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office staged a web-based reverse sting at a Lugoff hotel. Undercover officers placed decoy advertisements suggesting prostitution, and arranged to meet the individuals who responded to the listing […]
St. Peter is a small city of roughly 12,000 residents, located in south-central Minnesota’s Nicollet County, near Mankato and New Ulm. In July 2015, a coalition of law enforcement agencies, led by the Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office and including the St. Peter Police Department, launched a two-stage reverse sting in St. Peter and New Ulm. […]
New Ulm is a small city of about 14,000 residents located in southern Minnesota’s Brown County near Mankato and St. Peter. In July 2015, a coalition of law enforcement agencies, led by the Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office and including the New Ulm Police Department, launched a two-stage reverse sting in New Ulm and St. Peter. Over a […]
Parker is a town and home rule municipality of approximately 60,000 residents, located in Colorado’s Douglas County about an hour’s drive southeast of Denver. Prostitution activity, at times involving minors, has been reported in the community for at least five years. In at least one instance, a local prostitution ring involving minors was linked to larger […]
Stratford is a town of approximately 52,000 residents, located in southern coastal Connecticut’s Fairfield County. As in the neighboring communities of Bridgeport and Milford, prostitution activity has been reported in the town for several years. It has also been linked to an array of violent crimes, including sex trafficking of minors, robberies and assaults on […]
Worthington is a small city of roughly 14,000 residents, located in southern Minnesota’s Nobles County. In 2015, the Executive Director of the Southwest Crisis Center confirmed that youth sexual exploitation and sex trafficking had occurred in southwest Minnesota in the past year, including in Nobles County. Among efforts to reduce prostitution in the community, local […]
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