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Yavapai County is a county of just over 242,000 residents, located in central Arizona. Prescott is the county seat and largest city. The city of Sedona is situated in both Yavapai and Coconino Counties. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the cities and unincorporated are of the county. In addition to city-level efforts […]
Flathead County has approximately 102,000 residents and is located by the Canadian border in Northwest Montana. Its county seat and largest city is Kalispell, MT. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented throughout the county. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. For example, […]
St. Johns County is a county of just under 300,000 residents, located on the northeastern shore of Florida, near Jacksonville. St. Augustine is the county seat and largest city. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it […]
Pearl is a city of roughly 27,000 residents, located just east of Jackson in Rankin County, Mississippi. Several years ago, the Pearl Police Department ramped up efforts to curtail prostitution in the city. In addition to conducting stings targeting prostituted women and pimps/traffickers, the PPD has conducted at least one web-based operation targeting sex buyers. […]
Albert Lea is a city of approximately 18,000 residents, located at the juncture of Interstates 35 and 90 in southeastern Minnesota’s Freeborn County, south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results […]
Clifton Park is a town of approximately 38,000 residents, located in southern Saratoga County near Albany, Schenectady, Colonie, Troy, and Saratoga Springs, New York. In an effort to reduce prostitution activity in the town, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office has conducted at least one reverse sting. In July 2014, SCSO deputies conducted an eight-hour web-based […]
Great Falls is a city of approximately 60,000 residents in West-Central Montana. It’s the largest city and county seat of Cascade County, MT. The local commercial sex market and crimes associated with it—including cases of rape committed against prostituted women—have been well-documented. In 1888, when the city was just four years old, an ordinance was […]
The Colony is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, located in the northern suburbs of Dallas near Denton in Denton County, Texas. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has […]
Corte Madera is a town of roughly 10,000 residents, located in Marin County, California near Larkspur. Prostitution and sex trafficking, including child sex trafficking, have been documented throughout Marin County. There have also been local cases of assault and murder of women in prostitution, as well as drug and child endangerment charges. Consumer level demand […]
Mill Valley is a city of approximately 14,000 residents, located just north of San Francisco in Marin County, California, near San Rafael. Cases of prostitution and child sexual exploitation have been reported in the city. For example, in 2003, “a 43-year-old Mill Valley man was arraigned on charges that he repeatedly injected a 14-year-old girl […]
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