A federal judge says an anti-porn group's suit against Twitter can move forward, in a case that could portend a dangerous expansion of how courts define "sex trafficking."
Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
The only thing FOSTA has done is chill speech and make catching sex traffickers more difficult.
The penalty for employing 18- to 20-year-olds to work nude, topless, or "in a sexually oriented commercial activity" is now 2 to 20 years in prison.
Portland police are calling it "human trafficking," but it was just an old-fashioned vice bust.
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Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
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Two women still face felony charges, though the cases against all male defendants were dropped.
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Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
Charges against Kraft were (rightfully) dismissed. The women he patronized now have criminal records.
Judge Susan Brnovich said no reasonable person would question her impartiality just because her husband already says they're guilty.
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Never mind the court order showing the child as a dependent in her care.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
"Supreme Court jurisprudence...is heavily weighted against you," an appeals judge told state prosecutors last week.
In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.
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And they're just as wrong and dangerous this time around.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."
You know, to "fight human trafficking."
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Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
The operation is still arresting sex workers and calling it a rescue mission.
The bipartisan bill says "using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act" or in any kind of labor counts as human trafficking.
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To state Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, “Raising women up” apparently means depriving them of employment opportunities.
'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
The bill also targets strip clubs
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Nonetheless, a judge will let a sex trafficking complaint against Weinstein proceed.
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We were told this sort of spying would only be used to stop terrorists. And yet...
Nine women face felony prostitution charges and hundreds of their customers have been arrested. Florida says it's the real victim.
Authorities are walking back big claims about an international human-trafficking ring involving Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
It's also part of a larger national attack on massage parlors and sex workers.
Government statistics often show more reports of both. That doesn't mean either is on the rise.
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Occupational licensing programs deprive people of livelihoods and often don't improve public health.
How big hotel chains became arms of the surveillance state.
The Super Bowl is around the corner and a popular sex trafficking myth is back.
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