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Baxter is a small city of less than 10,000 residents, situated in central Minnesota’s Crow Wing County, near Brainerd. In May 2015, officers with the Baxter and Brainerd Police Departments, and Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office, conducted what they described as a “first-of-its-kind” operation targeting sex buyers in the community. Law enforcement placed a decoy advertisement […]
Covington is a small city of just over 14,000 residents, situated 35 miles southeast of Atlanta in Newton County, Georgia, near Conyers. Prostitution, conducted both indoors and at street level, has been reported in the community in recent years and has generated complaints to law enforcement. In late May 2015, the Covington Police Department conducted […]
Clermont is a city of over 44,000 residents, located in suburban central Florida’s Lake County, west of Orlando and southeast of Leesburg. Prostitution activity has been reported in the community, and has generated complaints to law enforcement. Minors have also been recovered during anti-prostitution investigations in the city. Local law enforcement have conducted at least one reverse […]
Ellensburg is a city of approximately 20,000 residents in Washington state, located in Kittitas County, just north of Yakima. Prostitution activity has been documented throughout the city and in surrounding areas. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market are child sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, and violence committed against […]
Winona County is a county of just under 50,000 residents, located in southeastern Minnesota. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the community, and have generated complaints to law enforcement. In addition to overseeing or assisting with city-level anti-prostitution efforts in Winona, county local law enforcement agencies have conducted at least two reverse stings. […]
Ashland is a city of approximately 20,000 residents, located in north-central Ohio’s Ashland County, near Mansfield. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy for prevention and response. In their efforts to deter sex buyers and reduce the […]
Calvert County is a county of just under 90,000 residents, located southeast of Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Virginia, in southern coastal Maryland. In late April 2015, deputies with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, supported by officers from the St. Mary’s and Charles County Sheriff’s Offices and the Southern Maryland Information Center, conducted the county’s first […]
Owatonna is a small city of approximately 26,000 residents, located south of the Twin Cities and west of Rochester in Minnesota’s Steele County, at the juncture of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highways 14 and 218. In late March 2015, regional task force officers with the South Central Drug Investigative Unit conducted a reverse sting in Owatonna that […]
Fort Collins is a city of roughly 169,000 residents, situated 65 miles north of Denver in Larimer County, CO. For at least two decades, instances of prostitution, particularly those arranged online and conducted within city hotels and adult-oriented businesses, have been reported throughout the county. Numerous cases of prostitution, solicitation of prostitution, commercial sexual exploitation, […]
Port Orchard is a city of approximately 15,000 residents, situated in western Washington near Bremerton, WA. It is the county seat of Kitsap County, WA. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city; in January 2014, for example, a Port Orchard resident was sentenced to 50 years in prison for human […]
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