Sex-Trafficking Discussion in Portland Tonight

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Portland-area readers are invited to join Reason magazine Staff Editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Reason Foundation Director of Criminal Justice Reform Lauren Galik for a discussion about the myths and realities surrounding human trafficking in America. Is there really an "epidemic" of sex trafficking happening here, as many in the media and Congress have claimed? How are federal and state legislators addressing the issue? What tactics have police taken to fight it? And what parallels can be drawn between these efforts and the failed war on drugs?

The event will take place on the Portland State University campus following today's Students for Liberty regional forum, but it is open to the public and non-students are encouraged to attend. The talk should last approximately 40 minutes, to be followed by a brief Q&A session.

What: Sex-trafficking policy discussion

When: 5 p.m., Saturday, November 14, 2015

Where: 5th Ave Cinema, 510 SW Hall St Portland, OR, 97201 (on the Portland State campus)

RSVP: Not required. 

Questions? Contact Preston Cornish at [e-mail] or [phone]  

Can't make it? Check out Brown's cover story from the November 2015 issue of Reason magazine, which digs into the shoddy statistics, moral panic, and misguided policy fueling the growing anti-trafficking movement. Or watch Galik and Brown discuss the issue with Sex Workers Outreach Project board member and Georgetown University researcher Katie Hail-Jares and Families Against Mandatory Minimum Government Affairs Counsel Molly Gill in Reason's D.C. office last August.