Posted on 12/18/2022 8:08:01 AM PST by ransomnote
(The Center Square) - Two new laws regarding people on the streets will take effect in California next year.
One law deals with sex workers and could result in fewer prostitution arrests. The other will result in fewer penalties for jaywalking.
Both laws will go into effect on January 1, 2023.
In June, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 357 into law. The bill, sponsored by state Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, decriminalizes "loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution."
When signing the bill into law earlier this year, Newsom reiterated that it didn't legalize prostitution; he argued that it would offer protection to transgender individuals, which he said were disproportionately targeted by law enforcement without this protection.
"To be clear, this bill does not legalize prostitution," he said at the time. "It simply revokes provisions of the law that have led to disproportionate harassment of women and transgendered adults. While I agree with the author's intent and I am signing this legislation, we must be cautious about its implementation. My Administration will monitor crime and prosecution trends for any possible unintended consequences and will act to mitigate any such impacts."
However, opponents of the law argue that it is dangerous. They say it will lead to increased human trafficking, expose children to the sex work industry, and ultimately close businesses.
MORE AT LINK: New prostitution and jaywalking laws taking effect in California on January 1
This will help with all the new child sex slaves Biden is bringing in for Newsome and friends, the politicians will now be free to do as they wish with them.
No doubt a lot of Ukrainians will be showing up in the US soon...
So now we are protecting Trans hookers....Lord Have Mercy in California!!
So now you can cross the street anywhere to discuss terms with the hooker of choice, and its all OK?
America is finished. GloboHomo and Satanism now prevail. Only divine intervention can change this.
Really, really happy that the CA legislature and the governor have their priorities in order. THAT much attention should usher Newsome right into the WH in 2024.
You know they are BAD laws when the governor has to explain them - TRY TO explain them!
People of color. Everywhere you look - no matter the subject - PEOPLE OF COLOR!!!!!
“”All Californians will benefit from the Governor’s decision to sign AB 2147—the Freedom to Walk Act—into law,” Shroff said in the release. “No longer will law enforcement be able to stop people who are safely crossing the street and burden them with citations and heaps of debt. For too long, our jaywalking laws were used as a pretext to stop and harass people, especially low-income people and people of color. The reforms enacted in AB 2147 will put an end to that and, in doing so, make all of California safer for pedestrians.””
Hey white liberal ‘elite’ bimbos of Martha’s Vineyard and DC suburbs - IT’S YOUR HUSBANDS AND BOYFRIENDS WHO ARE RAPING THE 5 YEAR OLDS...
These kind of laws clearly target and disproportionately affect minorities
I’ve heard that there is violence towards transgender prostitutes.
I don’t excuse such violence. But ,it tends to happen at the moment of truth, when a buyer discovers that the person he thought was a girl is not really a girl.
It seems that they’re splitting hairs somewhat. They are saying this is not legalizing prostitution, but it sure is making it a lot easier for people who are in that business.
It is two reasons:
1) Trans hookers not telling clients and getting beat up as a result
2) Trans citizens dressing like hookers and getting arrested under suspicion of being a prostitute
“More Guns, Less Crime” A true story.
Fewer Laws, Less Criminals soon to be written.
You can’t make this stuff up, as fast as these idiots can.
“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window
Hey, Gavin, take a walk on the wild side.
Why should He?
Serious question.
All the smart Jews got out of Germany in the early 30s. Just sayin’.
Understanding you’re in KY per your profile, and CA politics are in DC right now, are you suggesting everyone come down your way, or if not where do Americans flee to freedom?
More deaths to soon occur. Cars running over jaywalkers who dart out from behind visual obstructions, more robberies of doofus Johns, prosties selling fentanyl or toxic meds to people on street or doofud Johns, more prosties getting hurt or killed as they openly parade themselves (lots of more than sexual pervies out there).
Must be a stupid gene in california lawmakers....or an evil gene.
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