But one major category is bucking the trend: police recorded a percent jump in reports of human trafficking in The huge spike appears to be connected to the federal shutdown of sex-for-sale websites.
The goal of shutting them down was to curb human trafficking. Instead, it seems to have had the opposite effect. Until April of last year, sex workers said they had a much safer alternative: websites like Backpage. But after Backpage was linked to sex trafficking of underage girls, lawmakers in Washington voted almost unanimously to make it illegal to advertise sex work online.
Doogan says Backpage took prostitution out of the dark ages. James Infirmary. James is a peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers. People who live and work there say the violence is out of control. KPIX 5 spoke with him and several neighbors. In response, he created a Sex Workers Abatement Unit.
Sex workers just see the abatement unit as harassment. They want sites like Backpage to come back. Several human rights organizations and an advocate for sex workers are now suing the government to overturn the FOSTA and SESTA laws, calling them unconstitutional for violating free speech rights. We told you this would happen. No one listened to the sex workers or advocates, now, look at the mess these laws created.
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