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Covers sex work policy nationwide: legislation, arrest data, state profiles, and more. Not about sex workers - about power and what those in power do to us.
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Sex Work Policy News Round Up (opens the original)
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Sex Work Policy Newsletter is reader-supported. I spend so many hours digging through legislation, court records, grant documents, press releases, and local news so you don’t have to. If you value independent sex-work policy research with receipts, please become a paid subscriber to keep this newsletter going. - TaraSubscribe nowIntroducing News Round UpsThere are always more sex work policy development than I have time to really write about,
The Perfect Trafficking Victim: Fictitious Victims in Court and Legislation (opens the original)
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Cases with fictitious minor sex trafficking victims have been integral to the shaping of the sex trafficking moral panic and related bad policy in the US for at least sixteen years. Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane to reorient ourselves. In 2013 things were growing stale for those attempting to profit from the sex trafficking moral panic, in big part because of the lack of actual sex trafficking cases. Swanee Hunt and crew were executing the campaign begun during their <a href="https://m
New OVC Funding and ICE (opens the original)
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The federal Office for Victims of Crime announced its 2026 trafficking funding package yesterday, August 25. Surprise, ICE cooperation is now required for all grantees.<source type
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