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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.
See the full article from “AlterNet”
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.
