Backpage Executives Escape Pimping Charges Kamala Harris Brought (Twice) Against Them
The state will continue to pursue money-laundering charges against Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey, and James Larkin.
The state will continue to pursue money-laundering charges against Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey, and James Larkin.
Hope Zeferjohn's role was limited to chatting with the "victim"-who was never actually trafficked-on Facebook.
Like all things 2017, an old urban legend takes an even more ridiculous turn.
A new paper in the Wake Forest Law Review explores "the virtues of unvirtuous spaces" when it comes to stopping sexual exploitation.
The "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" would not stop sexual exploitation. But it could blow up the legal framework that supports the internet as we know it.
AG Josh Hawley's "new evidence" against the U.S. company is actions carried out by foreign contractors for foreign websites.
What Korean sex workers "were doing could not be called consensual because they were being paid," Val Richey tells The Seattle Times.
Post says Backpage hired a contractor that catfished on foreign competitors' sites.
Making matters worse, the report concludes, was "the tone at the top."
FAA reauthorization bill would require airline ticket-counter and gate agents to be trained on reporting "potential human trafficking victims."
Examining McCain's philanthropic past reveals a long history of personal abuse of nonprofit resources, shady connections, and shoddy work.
From pill theft to cozying up to authoritarians, Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador on human rights has a long history of abusing the system.
Even the police can't control human-trafficking hysteria anymore, and it could backfire for them.
A batch of frightening new bills take aim at all sorts of civil liberties under the guise of stopping sexual exploitation.
These are the tools of pornographers, "sextortionists," and human traffickers, Sessions told a police conference this week.
Naturally, they're portraying it as a success.
New laws are under debate, but the practice is more common than you think.
Former Oakland cop Brian Bunton is one of dozens of area police officers who've been implicated in the sexual exploitation of "Celeste Guap."
That's 332 times as many sex workers arrested in the stings as people indicted on federal charges involving a minor.
Maria Navarete says police told her "shut up, you have no rights" as they handcuffed and pinned down her and her children.
"It's like we lack enough empathy to understand the choices of others, and therefore deprive them of agency."
State lawmakers say porn is a public health crisis that causes rape and sex trafficking-but watch all you want as long as the state gets a cut.
Kansas CPS said Anthony Long was to stay far away from then 16-year-old Hope Zeferjohn. He didn't listen. Now she's being treated as his accomplice.
Police say she was "acting on her own" and "not a victim of human trafficking."
A bill related to sex trafficking and Section 230 could have far-reaching consequences for web content, publishers, and apps.
U.S. kids are no more likely to be abducted today than they were decades ago, and much more likely to be returned safely when they are.
All sorts of normal behavior are now triggering financial surveillance as banks try to comply with confused government policies on human trafficking.
With sweeping "sex trafficking stings," the FBI returns to its roots as the nation's vice squad.
Can U.S. courts compel non-citizens to pay restitution to other non-citizens for crimes that took place abroad? Apparently so.
No, there haven't been an "unprecedented" number of child sex-trafficking rings busted since Donald Trump took office.
For some unlucky women, wiping a cop's semen from their massage-table may be one of the last things they do in this country.
How can Kutcher's group have helped in dramatically more sex-trafficking investigations than were actually opened across America?
A viral tale of Alaska Airlines staff saving a sex-trafficked teen turns out to be propaganda for federal immigration enforcement.
Where were all the Super Bowl 2017 sex-traffickers? Living only in activist and law-enforcement imaginations, it seems.
Attorney Robert Corn-Revere discusses the failed case against the "world's largest online brothel."
Watch Elizabeth Nolan Brown discuss the film with director Mary Mazzio, who aims to overhaul Backpage and federal law in the name of sex-trafficked teens.
Here we go again, and again, and again...
As Congress puts Backpage on trial, Section 230 is the big fish in this barrel of red herrings.
Sessions hearing brings out the worst in senatorial statism, Matt Welch argues in the L.A. Times
"It's a sad day for America's children victimized by prostitution," said victims services advocate Lois Lee.
The area has previously prosecuted more than a dozen men in 2016 for online speech related to prostitution.
And he's not the only criminal justice official in the news for sex offenses this week...
"Congress has spoken on this matter and it is for Congress, not this Court, to revisit."
While the particulars of Pizzagate are especially outlandish, it's not a narrative that sprung up in an alt-right vacuum. Just look at the coverage of Sherri Papini's case.
And making a mess of civil liberties and people's lives in the process
Constitutional violations abound in Alabama "Human Trafficking Safe Harbor Act."
The Wisconsin case centered on whether paying to kiss teen's foot was a "commercial sex act."