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Threats constitute the big difference between labor violations — “not paying you but you’re free to leave this job if you want,” Jimenez says — and labor trafficking, which is “threatening you to stay in this situation and not try to get help.”
The campaign against trafficking targets Spanish speakers through ads on Spanish-language radio and television. It focuses on people brought into the country for work or sex, not people smuggled across the border by coyotes just to get to the United States and then left free once they get here.
Jimenez says the alleged victim of sex trafficking had been relocated by Standing Against Global Exploitation — the nonprofit that counsels women arrested for prostitution in San Francisco, which is partnering with the consulate in the campaign. The consulate has handed over the two cases to the police, which is following up on the investigation, but Jimenez says she couldn’t release more details.
Alameda County extends moratorium on massage parlors
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The county’s board of supervisors unanimously approved a moratorium on new massage parlors last month after realizing the way the county regulates such facilities in some areas may not be in compliance with a law passed in 2008.
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The county has seen a rise of unregulated massage parlors opening in unincorporated areas during the last year or so, and the department was concerned parlors in unincorporated areas could proliferate if a new county ordinance was not drafted.
County planners added that in the past several months, the public also has requested the Sheriff’s Office or code enforcement officials to investigate a number of recently opened massage parlors for possible illegal activity.
The county can continue to use different requirements than those used for acupuncture or chiropractic services before allowing noncertified massage parlor operators to open in the area because the 2008 law pertains only to certified massage therapists.
Ricardo “Pichi” Canales, 33, and Lana Rosas, 25, drive around the Bronx and Harlem every Friday evening doing outreach for Citiwide, a harm-reduction organization in the South Bronx that provides free condoms and other miscellaneous health supplies to intravenous drug users and sex workers. New York City started distributing free male condoms in 1971 to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections. Today, these condoms are used as evidence in prostitution arrests. In January, a bill that would prohibit police from submitting condoms as evidence of prostitution or intent to solicit will be introduced in Albany. The “No Condoms As Evidence” bill, co-sponsored by N.Y. Senator Velmanette Montgomery, has been reintroduced every year since 1999 but has yet to make it to the floor for a vote. On March 24, the N.Y. Senate Codes Committee passed the bill and sent it to the Judiciary Committee for consideration.
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Vallejo police arrest suspected prostitute, client late Sunday
Times-Herald staff report
Posted: 05/31/2011 01:00:51 AM PDT
Vallejo police arrested a suspected prostitute and her customer, or “john,” about 10 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of Sonoma Boulevard and Florida Street, Sgt. Herman Robinson said.
Police arrested Ashley Smith, 20, of Fairfield on suspicion of loitering for the purposes of prostitution and also arrested Jerry Brown Jr., 45, of Suisun City on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute, Robinson said.
The arrests came after a patrol officer saw Smith walk up to a car which pulled up near the intersection. She was reportedly about to get inside the vehicle when she saw a police patrol car and rapidly walked away, Robinson said.
Leo was the first Stein sibling to go to Paris, in 1903, after a few years living in Florence, Italy. There he had visited another American ex-pat — Charles Loeser, who was one of Cézanne’s first and most prolific collectors. The visit was fateful.
The show’s first room lays out Leo’s initial collecting interests, including five Cézanne paintings and lithographs. Among them is his beloved little still life of five apples, plus a primitive scene of six bathers in a pastoral landscape — which belonged not to Leo but to Loeser.
The Cézanne painting of naked bathers is a subtle bud, which soon blossoms. Amid modest works by Manet, Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec is a voluptuous 1875 Renoir nude, sunlight sparkling through foliage to dapple her fleshy torso. Nearby hangs Felix Vallotton’s sleek, 1904 pastiche of Manet’s shocking prostitute-on-display, “Olympia,” which upset the French Academy 40 years before. The Vallotton simplifies her reclining nude body into flattened areas of hard-edge color, while her dark-haired head is haloed by a bright, brushy yellow pillow.
Baseball doesn’t need rules changes. It doesn’t need more replay. What it needs is better officiating. What it needs to do is come down hard on the umps who consistently make bad judgments and aren’t held accountable. If these guys can’t get it right, find people who can.
What baseball needs to do is get the umps to enforce the rules in place. It needs to stop allowing pitchers a minute between throws. It needs to make hitters stay in the box after a pitch and not go strolling and adjusting their batting gloves. When the game was younger, that never happened.
Baseball has to emulate Tim Daly in the wonderful film “Diner,” sitting at the bar in a strip club, slamming down his palms trying to get the piano player to up the tempo.
Prostitution sting nets 28 arrests in unincorporated San Leandro
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Those taken into custody on misdemeanor counts, including 10 women arrested on suspicion of prostitution and nine men arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute, were booked and released on a promise to appear later in court, police said.
Two of the suspected prostitutes are minors, and authorities are investigating their cases, Staysa said.
“We were looking for youths who may have been exploited and forced into prostitution,” he said.
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The operation targeted websites that advertised prostitutes, as authorities solicited “johns” and prostitutes who visit those sites, then had them agree to meet at a local hotel “where the sexual act was negotiated,”
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“It was an Internet-based decoy operation that intended to impact prostitution and the criminal activities associated with it,” Staysa said.
But I just don’t understand why y’all even cover the East Bay. Most of the Oakland stories highlight crime, thats good and helpful and an important part of the service SFist provides. But whenever an East Bay artist appears on these pages, it’s as “Bay Area” band/rapper/comic book artist or no mention at all that he/she is local. There are lots of Oakland events that go unwritten and unsnarked upon bt the Fist. Why? You don’t have the resources? Legitimate reason.
But when you do cover the East Bay and the majority of that coverage is “murder, slums, child prostitutes” and not any of the other bits it feels less and less like your helping us out with the coverage. Instead coverage of Oakland “as a mess” validates and reassures the world view of your newly minted San Franciscans. Comment on the place as ” a
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On the plus side, there was Livermore’s Danielle Ihle, 18, who brought a somber back story (She and her mom were homeless after her father lost his job and abandoned the family). Then there was Morgan Hill’s Ryan Ramirez, 18, who was back after making it into the show’s Top 24 last season. Also very impressive was Ashley Rich, 22, of Emeryville, who according to judge Tyce Diorio, moved “like a deer flying and jumping through the forest.” All three women advanced to the Las Vegas round.
Providing comic relief for the night were Oakland’s Leshia Moss, 25, a former stripper who called herself “The Black Barbie,” and Richmond’s Don-que Addison, 22, who couldn’t stop crying after his overwrought performance. Moss did little more than vigorously shake her booty and Addison was a great big blubbering wreck.
Prostitution sting nets 28 arrests in unincorporated San Leandro
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Those taken into custody on misdemeanor counts, including 10 women arrested on suspicion of prostitution and nine men arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute, were booked and released on a promise to appear later in court, police said.
Two of the suspected prostitutes are minors, and authorities are investigating their cases, Staysa said.
“We were looking for youths who may have been exploited and forced into prostitution,” he said.
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The operation targeted websites that advertised prostitutes, as authorities solicited “johns” and prostitutes who visit those sites, then had them agree to meet at a local hotel “where the sexual act was negotiated,”
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“It was an Internet-based decoy operation that intended to impact prostitution and the criminal activities associated with it,” Staysa said.
