Here's what we know about the takedown of The Review Board and 12 allegedly associated brothels.
New laws (ostensibly) related to human trafficking take effect in Florida, Illinois, New York, and North Dakota this month.
Federal agents are more than happy to spend their time playing website whack-a-mole when there are assets to seize.
Following a First Amendment win against Illinois Sheriff Tom Dart, Backpage.com has filed a civil action against the U.S. Attorney General.
Members of the South Korean pop group "Oh My Girl" fall victim to U.S. sex-trafficking hysteria.
Your tax-deductible donations helped produce a legal free-speech victory just this week
A federal appeals court tells Tom Dart to stop threatening payment processors that do business with the classified-ad site.
Loretta Lynch claims "hundreds of sex traffickers" were recently arrested by the FBI. It's not true.
"Defiance of a congressional subpoena is rare, and it's serious," says Sen. Rob Portman.
The biggest outcome of this costly and time-consuming FBI mission seems to be the arrest of 30 adults on old-fashioned vice charges.
The war on prostitution is the new war on drugs. Learn more!
Cali legislators heard diverse views on sex work and sex trafficking Tuesday.
How can cops be trusted to enforce prostitution laws fairly when they can't keep their dicks in their pants?
Operation Cross Country is billed as a way to rescue sex-trafficked children but it's essentially a federally funded vice sting.
Amnesty International offices around the world to be targeted this month in protest of AI's support for decriminalizing sex work.
Leftist political mag Mother Jones is serving as a mouthpiece for sex-trafficking propaganda from religious nonprofit Covenant House.
But grant hungry activists and vice squads want you to think they are.
Anti-trafficking efforts includes everything from offering or soliciting paid sex, to living with a sex worker, to running a classified advertising website.
And the results will be just as disastrous, for "perpetrators" and "victims" alike.
North Carolina lawmakers want to teach sex-trafficking scare stories to school children.
"Jail time should be understood" for those caught soliciting prostitution says Indiana AG Greg Zoeller.
Only a few million arrests to go and surely we'll stamp out this prostitution fad, by golly...
At stake: Possessing a firearm during a "crime of violence" adds five extra years to a felony sentence.
Her so-called crimes? Screening clients and booking appointments for willing adult sex workers.
The new federal sex trafficking law makes very clear that anyone paying for sex with a teen is guilty of the crime of human trafficking.
Reason staffers Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Lauren Galik join panelists from the Sex Workers Outreach Project and Families Against Mandatory Minimums to talk about human-trafficking laws in America.
The columnist thinks you should go out of business if some of your customers are criminals.
Unless you think all prostitution is sex trafficking...
Hundreds of human-rights orgs, sex workers, and allies kindly ask Lena Dunham et al. to STFU about prostitution.
Featuring Katie Hail-Jares of the Sex Workers Outreach Project, Molly Gill of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, and Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
Annual report looks at human-trafficking conviction numbers in America and around the world.
Decriminalizing sex work supports "gender apartheid" say the likes of Lena Dunham, Anne Hathaway, and Meryl Streep.
Everything old is new again!
Score one for sex workers, capitalism, and common sense.
Another reminder who really gets targeted under U.S. sex trafficking statutes.
The police "said that this is a common thing," stated the Facebook post gone viral. And yet...
Plaintiffs coerced into prostitution as teens alleged that Backpage was complicit in their trafficking.
FBI says Hortencia Medeles-Arguello, 71, "should have known" some of the women were being controlled by pimps.
Senators sneak through SAVE Act as amendment, creating criminal liability for classified-ad sites.
Loretta Lynch vote also hangs in the balance.
This is one time that lawmakers using abortion as a political tool may be a boon for civil liberties.
In Northern Ireland people can be convicted of paying for sex starting in June.
But gridlock may be the best we can hope for with the "Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act."
"Tough on crime" doesn't die, it just takes new forms
Closing sites like Backpage.com puts trafficking victims at even more risk.
The legislation addresses much more than preventing and punishing traffickers.
What the plan lacks in likelihood to yield results, it makes up for in ensuring police harassment.
At least 270 arrested in Houston prostitution stings since start of 2014
