Posted on 09/26/2016 5:39:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed more than half a dozen bills that decriminalize prostitution and increase protections for young trafficking victims in court amid growing efforts in California to help children and young adults swept into the trade of forced sex and labor.
Among the bills passed were laws that would prohibit the disclosure of victims' personal information, provide victims' services to trafficking witnesses and allow minors under age 16 to testify through closed-circuit televisions in certain cases.
But also approved were hotly contested bills that would decriminalize prostitution and allow human trafficking victims to vacate prior convictions and seal their records.
Senate Bill 1322, authored by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), make the crimes of solicitation and loitering with intent to commit prostitution misdemeanors inapplicable to children younger than 18. It also allows law enforcement to take sexually exploited children into temporary custody -- only if leaving them unattended would pose an immediate threat to their health or safety....
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LOL! I was just going to post the same thing.
Bill Clinton says,Road trip!!!
The girl in the Oakland PD hooker scandal was under age. I suppose this has something to do with that.
Nambla award
o, Jerry wants more prostitutes on the street corners at night
The present line of thinking in anti-human trafficking circles is that prostitution should be a crime for the john but not the prostitute. The thinking is that many prostitutes are pressured into it and that punishing them does not help them reform or discourage their participation, since they are not necessarily willing participants to begin with.
I’m stunned. Even for Jerry Brown, this is over the top!
This form of slavery is older than the written word.
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