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Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift
The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., moved to dismiss thousands of cases dating back decades, amid a growing movement to change the criminal justice system’s approach to prostitution.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office announced Wednesday that it would no longer prosecute prostitution and unlicensed massage, putting the weight of one of the most high-profile law enforcement offices in the United States behind the growing movement to change the criminal justice system’s approach to sex work.

The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., asked a judge on Wednesday morning to dismiss 914 open cases involving prostitution and unlicensed massage, along with 5,080 cases in which the charge was loitering for the purposes of prostitution.

The law that made the latter charge a crime, which had become known as the “walking while trans” law, was repealed by New York State in February.

The announcement represents a substantive shift in the Manhattan district attorney’s approach to prostitution. Many of the cases Mr. Vance moved to dismiss dated to the 1970s and 1980s, when New York waged a war against prostitution in an effort to clean up its image as a center of iniquity and vice.

“Over the last decade we’ve learned from those with lived experience, and from our own experience on the ground: Criminally prosecuting prostitution does not make us safer, and too often, achieves the opposite result by further marginalizing vulnerable New Yorkers,” Mr. Vance said in a statement.

The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including patronizing sex workers, promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and said that its policy would not stop it from bringing other charges that stem from prostitution-related arrests.

That means, in effect, that the office will continue to prosecute pimps and sex traffickers, as well as people who pay for sex, continuing to fight those who exploit or otherwise profit from prostitution without punishing the people who for decades have borne the brunt of law enforcement’s attention.

Manhattan will join Baltimore, Philadelphia and other jurisdictions that have declined to prosecute sex workers. Brooklyn also does not prosecute people arrested for prostitution, but instead refers them to social services before they are compelled to appear in court — unless the district attorney’s office there is unable to reach them.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, in January moved to dismiss hundreds of open cases related to prostitution and loitering, and said that he would eventually ask that more than a thousand be dismissed. The Queens and Bronx district attorneys followed in March, moving to dismiss hundreds of prostitution-related cases.

Prosecutions for sex work had already been dropping dramatically over the past decade, said Abigail Swenstein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Exploitation Intervention Project, with occasional spikes, such as one during 2014 when the Super Bowl was held at MetLife Stadium, just outside the city.

She added that the vast majority of her clients over the last two years had been women arrested in massage parlors.

Ms. Swenstein said that Mr. Vance’s move would likely “have reverberations for sex workers and trafficking survivors well outside of New York City,” and that it would make them feel “less stigmatized.” She commended the district attorney for having formulated the policy after talking to sex workers and others with relevant experience.

Mr. Vance’s office had been in the practice of dismissing prostitution cases after sending those charged to mandatory counseling sessions. Going forward, Mr. Vance’s statement said, such counseling sessions would be provided only on a voluntary basis.

Sex workers have been fighting for decriminalization for decades. But the 2019 formation of Decrim NY, a coalition of organizations that support full decriminalization and have worked to lobby lawmakers, represented a turning point for the movement.

In New York City, those calls have grown louder. Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, called on the state to end criminal penalties for sex workers.

“The communities hit hardest by the continued criminalization of sex work and human trafficking are overwhelmingly L.G.B.T.Q., they are people of color, and they are undocumented immigrants,” Ms. McCray said at the time. “Sex work is a means of survival for many in these marginalized groups.”

Declining to prosecute prostitution and other related crimes has also been a focus of the candidates to replace Mr. Vance, who announced in March that he would not run for re-election. The majority have said that they would halt the prosecutions if elected.

Eliza Orlins, a candidate for the office and a former public defender, has been particularly vocal, releasing a comprehensive policy paper on the subject in which she said that she would fight to make it legal in New York to buy and sell consensual sex. Whether to prosecute those who patronize prostitutes has been a subject of consistent debate among feminist organizations.

In an interview on Wednesday, Ms. Orlins said that she was happy to see the shift, but that it had taken too long and that, in continuing to prosecute those who patronize sex workers, the office had not gone far enough.

“Am I glad that someone in a position as powerful as the Manhattan district attorney’s office is finally speaking out and saying that we shouldn’t be prosecuting people for engaging in their jobs? Of course I’m glad,” she said. “But do I think that he deserves to be held out as heroic by the movement when he has not done enough and acted quickly enough? No.”

More Than 1,000 Open Prostitution Cases In Brooklyn Are Going To Be Wiped From The Files
“The current way of handling sex workers is dangerous. It drives them underground, it doesn’t keep us safe, and it’s not really getting to the issue of trafficking.”

More than 1,000 open cases related to prostitution and loitering — some dating as far back as the 1970s — will be dismissed in Brooklyn, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez told BuzzFeed News.

The news is a part of a formal announcement that Gonzalez’s office now plans to decline to prosecute or dismiss cases on both charges. It is part of an effort to keep sex workers and other marginalized people — particularly people of color on low incomes — out of court in New York City’s most populated borough, where there are more than 2.5 million people. Gonzalez said his office has been rolling out a program to dismiss all prostitution cases over the last year, along with arrests under the loitering statute, which he said it has declined to prosecute since 2019. Gonzalez said his office has declined prosecution or dismissed all such cases since the end of last year.

“The current way of handling sex workers is dangerous. It drives them underground, it doesn’t keep us safe, and it’s not really getting to the issue of trafficking,” said Gonzalez. “I expect I’ll be criticized that I’m not prosecuting prostitutes and sex workers by a lot of conservative people, but I think that is the right thing to do and I think this will actually keep people safer.”

Sex workers may still face arrest by police, but Gonzalez said he hoped this new approach would limit interactions with the criminal justice system. Prostitution and loitering cases have been down in recent months, likely because of the pandemic. Gonzalez said there were fewer than 30 cases processed last year.

Some sex workers’ rights advocates said the move was a positive step. “We applaud the DA in doing this. It’s a real show of humanity for people burdened by these records, and we think it will make New York safer,” said Jared Trujillo, a policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union and former sex worker, who has campaigned for decriminalization. "I have nightmares about the experiences of trans folks having to come to court because it would feel so dehumanizing."

Jillian Modzeleski, a senior trial attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, who handles some of these cases as a public defender said she welcomed the announcement, but called for sex work to be fully decriminalized. “This decision will help many people avoid being entangled in the court system. However many harms still remain, including undercover policing by NYPD’s Vice Squad that is mired in racist and sexist abuse and corruption ... All people who carry the burdens of sex work-related records should have their convictions vacated; and the Vice Squad should be abolished.”

Decriminalization is a hot-button issue in all of New York state, and these changes only affect people selling sex and others arrested on the charge of loitering for the purpose of prostitution, often referred to as a ban on “walking while trans,” because of the people it disproportionately targets. Charges for buying sex or promoting sex work will still be prosecuted. Gonzalez faced criticism for continuing to prosecute a substantial number of low-level marijuana possession cases after his predecessor had promised not to. He also got into hot water for previous comments on decriminalizing sex work, and sought to distinguish his current approach to sex work from full decriminalization.

Gonzalez told BuzzFeed News it shouldn’t be up to prosecutors to take unilateral action to fully decriminalize sex work, and he believes the matter should be settled at the state level. “Full decriminalization cannot be done by prosecutorial fiat. The community is divided on this. There are survivors and sex workers who actively disagree with each other,” he told BuzzFeed News. “This is an important conversation that our elected leaders have to take up.”

But he said the current process elsewhere in New York was “punitive” because it requires sex workers who have been arrested to complete court-mandated services — such as mental health counseling — before having their charges dropped. He said Brooklyn’s DA office wanted to continue to provide resources when appropriate, but now aimed to reach people before they arrived in court, and would no longer insist that people complete programs or accept services at all in order to have the cases dropped.

“To arrest a sex worker … and prosecute in the name of giving them assistance just isn’t right,” Gonzalez said. “Forcing people through the criminal justice system is not a way to get them help.”

Gonzalez said that clearing the outstanding cases was necessary because people should not face consequences for something they did in the past that would now be dismissed.

So far, 262 warrants going back to 2012 have already been vacated and the underlying charges related to selling sex and loitering have been dismissed. Around 850 older cases have been delayed due to procedural issues stemming from the pandemic, but Gonzalez said they’ll be dismissed in the coming weeks.

While none of the warrants being vacated would have resulted in prosecution at this point, open warrants would still result in arrest if the person was stopped for something else, and would appear on a background check, potentially causing issues with job applications or access to housing and education.

Oren Yaniv, a spokesperson for the DA’s Office acknowledged that there was the potential for new warrants in the future if the person cannot be reached to offer services either before or during a court appearance. Yaniv said those issues would be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Trujillo said it was also important to recognize many of the arrests on these statutes were likely made by police officers in the vice unit. The unit has been accused of corruption and making false arrests — overwhelmingly of people of color — on prostitution-related charges in order to boost overtime pay. “This is an important start to repairing some of the harm that has been done and continues to be done by the vice unit,” said Trujillo, but that to really address the issue, legislation needs to be passed. “It’s time for state action, as well.”

Gonzalez’s announcement comes as legislators are considering a statewide repeal of the statute on loitering for the purposes of prostitution. The law has been widely criticized as a form of “stop and frisk” that targets trans women and particularly trans women of color, and was the subject of protests this summer.

Gonzalez added his voice to the chorus of advocates who have long called for the repeal of the loitering law. He also called on the state to expunge more than 25,000 old criminal records dating back to 1975 for both prostitution and loitering convictions in Brooklyn.

While the DA’s Office can expunge criminal records on a case-by-case basis, he said an attempt to do so for marijuana possession had been difficult, and he hoped the state would pass legislation to clear the records in one go.

“[It would be] unfair to leave these people with criminal convictions for something that’s no longer a crime,” he said. “That’s another important piece — clearing people from all the collateral consequences that a conviction has, especially a conviction like prostitution or loitering. Those folks tend to get discriminated against in employment and housing. We’ve got to get those things off their rap sheets.”

The treatment of sex work and related offenses in the criminal justice system has been the subject of heated debate in New York in recent years.

Sex workers’ rights advocates and civil liberties groups have pushed for prostitution-related offenses to be repealed as a matter of economic, racial, and gender justice. They seek to distinguish sex work from sex trafficking and say that public safety is best served by harm-reduction measures rather than criminal proceedings.

On the other side of the argument, activists who want to eliminate the sex trade — including some victim services, religious, and conservative feminist organizations — say the focus should be on limiting the demand for sex work through the prosecution of buyers and third parties.

While that has resulted in fierce disagreements over the subject of decriminalization and competing legislation, there is broad agreement on all sides over the loitering statute.

Trujillo told BuzzFeed News that it was important to distinguish between efforts to repeal the loitering law and the broader debate about how to approach sex work.

“When you look at this statute, it is a direct descendent of Jim Crow vagrancy laws that punished Black folks for merely existing,” said Trujillo. “This is not a sex work statute, not at all ... It is a statute that has allowed law enforcement to target people for merely existing, and 85% of those people that they target are Black and brown women of color.”

Prostitution and loitering are both misdemeanors in New York state, and the way in which they are policed and prosecuted — or not — is complex. Both charges are typically prosecuted in what’s called diversion court, where people are mandated to receive various social services and can then have their charges dropped once those services are completed. Gonzalez’s office has previously handled cases in this manner in Brooklyn too.

The fact that the services are required, however, is controversial. Some argue the mandate is necessary to ensure the state can intervene if someone is being trafficked. However, failing to complete the mandated program can result in additional court dates and eventual criminal conviction.

When arrest procedures changed in 2020 as part of New York’s bail reform package, Gonzalez said that opened the door to a new approach, and his office is now trying to offer services to people before court. If his office can reach people beforehand, Gonzalez said it will decline to prosecute the charges. If the office is unable to reach people before court, the same offer of services and screening will take place in person, and the case will then be dismissed.

“I’m not trying to say there’s no one coming to court…[but] the goal is — the absolute goal — is for them to not have to come to court, and really just [do] a screening to make sure they’re not being trafficked,” he said.

While Gonzalez said he doesn’t expect anyone to be 100% satisfied with this new approach, he hopes it will be seen as a positive step toward harm reduction and will show skeptics that sex workers can be treated more humanely without sacrificing public safety.

Sex Work Could Soon Be Allowed In A Huge Part Of New York City
“This is literally how they put food on their tables,” Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán, who is campaigning to not prosecute sex workers, told News.

A headline-grabbing candidate for district attorney in New York City — who became a favorite of progressives after getting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement — plans to single-handedly make the borough of Queens the first major metropolitan area in the country where sex work would, effectively, not be a crime.

If Tiffany Cabán wins the Democratic primary in late June and general election in November — and actually puts her plan in place — it would mark one of the biggest successes for the sex work decriminalization movement that, after years of struggling to gain mainstream traction, has growing popularity and political influence across the country.

Cabán, who was a public defender until March, has framed her argument for not prosecuting sex work as one about class. "We just criminalize the people who have been destabilized by systemic problems, and you know our sex work community falls squarely within that category," Cabán told BuzzFeed News during a recent interview at Mike’s Diner in Queens' Astoria neighborhood.

“This is literally how they put food on their tables,” she argued during a debate Tuesday night.

Sex workers “end up with criminal records for minor offenses that could lead to deportation, could lead to criminal convictions that then make it even harder to stabilize lives,” she told BuzzFeed News.

“We want to support people in sex work who want to engage in sex work because certainly our economy doesn’t work for everybody,” she said. "Or, if it’s survival work, provide other means where their survival is no longer contingent on sex work."

The district attorney in Queens — home to nearly 2.4 million people, roughly the population of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city — oversees one of the most heavily policed parts of New York City and the state when it comes to sex work arrests. The office has the power to decline to prosecute people that the police arrest for specific crimes — similar to how former Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson declined to prosecute possession of small amounts of marijuana in 2014, paving the way for the current legislative push to legalize marijuana statewide that has recently stalled.

Cabán said that if she’s elected, “on day one it comes from being part of a memo to our district attorneys saying you will not prosecute sex workers, customers, and you will not prosecute under the promoting prostitution charges” — which cover what is colloquially called “pimping,” but which advocates say also impact sex workers supporting one another.

Sex trafficking, sexual coercion, and sex assault would still be prosecuted, Cabán said, adding, “but we are not there to police bodies and take away folks’ autonomy.”

Cabán frames decriminalizing sex work as a feminist issue, in addition to being a human rights, economic, and public health issue. Still, decriminalization has been polarizing for women’s rights advocates.

“Criminal justice reform is imperative,” said Sonia Ossorio, president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women. “But that doesn’t include, shouldn’t include, supporting the idea of legalizing an inherently violent business enterprise with connections to organized crime that fundamentally preys on the most vulnerable in our community.”

NOW-NYC is part of a coalition of organizations opposing full decriminalization and has endorsed candidate and current Queens Borough President Melinda Katz. “Katz does not support the wholesale decriminalization of the sex trade, recognizing the harms of an unfettered industry of exploitation and the violence that comes with it,” NOW-NYC said in a press release.

“Instead, she supports removing discriminatory laws such as loitering for the purposes of prostitution, decriminalizing people in prostitution, and increasing services to meet their needs, while retaining the power to legally hold sex buyers and pimps accountable.”

Cabán argues that proposals like Katz’s — known variously as the Nordic model, "end demand," or the equality model, which still target clients and third parties for prosecution — don’t work.

“You can’t police customers without policing sex workers. And you create an environment where there’s an incentivization of police officers harassing and taking advantage of sex workers to get information on their clients,” she said.

Cabán believes decriminalizing sex work would bring stability to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in Queens, who she says have been failed by a system that sends in police rather than providing services.

In 2018, 19% of the state’s arrests of people selling sex came from Queens alone, and a staggering 44% of the state’s arrests on a charge called “loitering for the purposes of prostitution” came from the borough, according to statistics provided by the Division of Criminal Justice Services. In the borough, which is often celebrated for its ethnic diversity, the loitering charges overwhelmingly target black and brown communities — 97% of arrests in 2018, many of whom were also transgender or undocumented.

Queens has already been at the forefront of addressing sex work as a crime. In 2004 it became home to the state’s first diversion program, which, in most cases, directs people arrested for prostitution to counseling sessions. Once the mandated sessions are complete, the charges are dismissed and the records are sealed.

“It did result in people being less likely to have criminal convictions,” said Leigh Latimer, who is the supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Exploitation Intervention Project. “But it’s not what I consider the ideal way to address the needs of people who are engaging in sex work, whether that’s voluntarily or not.”

A recent study from the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership found that the diversion courts, called human trafficking intervention courts by the state, are not living up to their stated ambitions.

The courts view people arrested for prostitution as victims rather than criminals, but structurally, the report said, the courts still treat people selling sex as defendants. Critics also say that the waiting period between an arrest and when the charges are dismissed makes it difficult to find alternative sources of income.

Proponents of the court say that within the context of the criminal justice system, the diversion programs are a good compromise to avoid incarceration for people accused of selling sex. The arrests also provide law enforcement with access to sex workers, which some argue is necessary for obtaining information to go after traffickers.

Cabán says this isn’t working.

She argues that the current model makes it more difficult for people to come forward about sex traffickers, and says that removing the threat of prosecution will provide better opportunities for collaboration.

“We are repairing fractured trust so that we have witnesses for our sex trafficking cases, so that we can start to be successful in those prosecutions,” she said. “Because in Queens we have been dismally unsuccessful through the ways in which we’ve tried to combat trafficking.”

Cabán says those models ignore collateral impacts on sex workers.

“Sometimes I don’t leave my house after 10 p.m. because the harassment is so strong,” said Mayra Colón, a 60-year-old sex worker from Jackson Heights who is supporting Cabán. “If I was somewhere with my husband, the police would ask us if he was a client, and they wanted to put us in jail.”

Colón is one of a group of sex workers who have been knocking on doors, passing out flyers, talking to neighbors, and going to rallies for Cabán.

“Cabán is the first time that sex workers have the opportunity to support someone who is bringing us out of the shadows,” said Bianey García, a former sex worker who organized the group canvassing for Cabán, and who is a member of Make the Road Action, which has endorsed Cabán.

The loitering charges are particularly problematic for this group, who say they are often targeted solely on the basis of their appearance or clothing.

Giovanna, who declined to give her real name because she is undocumented, told BuzzFeed News that she has been arrested twice when coming home late at night after dancing at a club, and that the arrests could affect her immigration status.

Her story is very similar to that of state Sen. Jessica Ramos, who represents the same area in Queens and is supporting a bill to decriminalize sex work at the state level. Ramos told BuzzFeed News that she was personally harassed by the police under the loitering statute as a young woman.

“It was late at night, it was the summer. I was with my girlfriends, our skirts were a little short, and the police officers, you know, suspected that we were sex workers,” Ramos said. “It was humiliating.”

The Legal Aid Society sued the NYPD over the loitering statute in 2016 for what it called unconstitutional enforcement. As part of that settlement, NYPD has changed arrest guidelines so that appearance and clothing can no longer be the sole factors cited for an arrest.

“For crimes that New York State has decided are very low-level crimes, those arrests can have very long consequences for people,” Latimer said, “particularly immigrants.”

“The NYPD is committed to providing clarity to our officers on loitering enforcement, and did so through a combination of amplifications to the patrol guide and enhanced training to ensure compliance,” the department said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. “We will continue to address community concerns about prostitution and at the same time take steps to address and prevent human trafficking and protect victims of sex crimes.”

In addition to the bill introduced by Ramos and others in Albany, lawmakers in Washington, DC, introduced a bill to fully decriminalize sex work in the district earlier in June. Narrower bills have also been introduced in Maine and Massachusetts, and Rhode Island is considering a proposal for a task force to study the issue.

Sex work has also been legal in some parts of Nevada since 1971, but that primarily applies to rural areas of the state, and advocates for decriminalization say the regulatory regime there fails to protect the most marginalized sex workers.

At Tuesday’s debate, all seven of the candidates in the Queens DA race said they would decline to prosecute sex workers themselves, but Cabán is the only candidate supporting full decriminalization, including clients and third parties, and her endorsements from the community and advocates reflect that.

Katz, who has more campaign donations and endorsements than Cabán, told BuzzFeed News that she also supports legislation in Albany to repeal the loitering statute and allow victims of trafficking to vacate related convictions. During Tuesday’s debate, she said that she would also aim to offer more services through the courts, and that she thinks “you can do both.”

Declining to prosecute cases doesn’t change the law — though Cabán has also spoken in support of the bill to decriminalize sex work that was introduced Monday — which would still allow police to arrest people on offenses related to sex work. Cabán said she is prepared to work with the NYPD on alternatives, like pre-arrest diversion programs.

“There’s still a system within which we’re working, and the Police Department and the policing system is part of that,” she said. “I hope over time we’re able to change what policing looks like in our country, in our city, in our borough.”

We Asked All The 2020 Candidates If The US Should Stop Arresting Sex Workers. Only Four Said Yes. Many of the presidential candidates ran away from the question.

Sex work is considered the oldest profession in the world, but lots of candidates running for president in 2020 act like it’s a new issue — and they’re unprepared to talk about it.

Given recent efforts to decriminalize sex work in state legislatures and debates in Congress about the ramifications of some anti-trafficking laws on sex workers, BuzzFeed News asked all the 2020 presidential candidates, including President Donald Trump, to lay out their stance. We asked:

Do you think sex work should be decriminalized?
If so, what changes do you support on the federal level?
Some candidates took clear positions in support of decriminalization, like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Cory Booker, who told BuzzFeed News unequivocally, “Yes, sex work should be decriminalized.”

Sen. Kamala Harris supports decriminalization for sex workers, as does Rep. Seth Moulton (though he has a caveat — he wants to maintain strict penalties for people who solicit prostitution; Harris did not address solicitors). Former senator Mike Gravel, who initially said he was running not to win but rather to try to get different views onto the debate stage, also supports decriminalization.

On the other hand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stuck by his view that sex workers should be arrested. Many of the candidates said nothing, despite several requests. A number of others gave vague answers, including Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who suggested they want to examine the issue more.

Most Democratic voters — who will decide next year’s primary — appear to be ahead of the candidates.

Decrim NY, an advocacy organization for sex workers, joined progressive think tank Data for Progress and YouGov to survey voters nationwide this month. Their poll found that among Democrats, 56% support the decriminalization of consensual sex work. Just 17% of Democrats opposed — a 3-to-1 ratio of support. Among voters across all parties, 45% support decriminalization, while 27% oppose it.

All of the candidates’ answers — and nonanswers — are below.

“They should have a position on the decriminalization of sex work,” argues Kate D’Adamo, an advocate for sex workers’ rights who regularly lobbies Congress. She told BuzzFeed News that decriminalization would protect sex workers from violence and exploitation — and candidates need to know where they stand.

All the 2020 candidates who currently serve in Congress voted for bills ostensibly about trafficking — the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) became law last year. Sex workers and advocates, including D’Adamo, fought those policies aggressively, arguing they go far beyond trafficking and actually made sex work even more dangerous by cracking down on online tools that workers used to vet clients and protect themselves and each other.

“I want candidates to have a willingness to discuss how trafficking laws exacerbate those problems because that’s something they can address at the federal level,” D’Adamo, a partner at Reframe Health and Justice Consulting, said.

The passage of FOSTA-SESTA galvanized an organizing movement and led to protests around the country.

“Sex workers are talking a lot more publicly,” said Alex Andrews, a member of the board of directors of the national chapter of the Sex Workers Outreach Project and former sex worker. “We’re no longer the invisible vice that you can ignore easily.”

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard “If a consenting adult wants to engage in sex work, that is their right, and it should not be a crime,” Gabbard told BuzzFeed News in March. “All people should have autonomy over their bodies and their labor.”

A spokesperson for her presidential campaign cited that comment in an email to BuzzFeed News this month and added, “She believes it should be decriminalized, and that is the action we would take on the federal level.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders Sanders didn’t reply to repeated questions from BuzzFeed News, but in an interview with NPR’s 1A on May 16, he said it deserves more discussion.

“I think the idea of legalizing prostitution is something that should be considered. It exists in other counties — something I want to think about a little bit more — but it is certainly something that should be considered,” Sanders said. “And I think when you talk about people getting arrested for prostitution, I think one should [take] in to consideration that the people who use prostitution, men who visit places of prostitution, or engage prostitution, they are equally guilty. But I think the issue of legalizing it is something that certainly needs to be discussed.”

Mayor Pete Buttigieg Buttigieg did not answer questions from BuzzFeed News.

In the past, he has acknowledged sex work as an issue, but he has not outlined a position on decriminalization. In an interview with Out magazine, he said, “The reason FOSTA-SESTA moved so quickly is because [lawmakers thought] that by supporting the bill they were opposing the harms that come from sex trafficking. We now understand that this legislation harmed vulnerable people, but this needs to be part of a larger conversation about how we treat sex workers and all of the reasons why this society hesitates to embrace the idea of sex work. I don’t think all of those ideas are wrong, but we need to open up debate about these policies, which were well-intentioned but harmful in practice.”

Buttigieg’s campaign declined to offer any clarification about his stance on decriminalization.

Gov. John Hickenlooper Hickenlooper answered a question about decriminalization from BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith at SXSW in March by saying, “Legalizing prostitution and regulating it, so there are norms and protections and we understand more clearly how people are being treated and make sure we prevent abuse, I think it should be really looked at.”

BuzzFeed News asked for clarity about his stance on decriminalization this month.

“He believes the issue should be seriously considered,” a spokesperson for Hickenlooper’s campaign said. “This means studying how it would be regulated as a legal activity. As the Governor who oversaw the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, he knows the amount of time and research that has to go into legalizing a once criminal activity.”

Sen. Kamala Harris Harris did not reply to repeated questions from BuzzFeed News, but the Root asked the California senator in February if she supports decriminalizing sex work. “I think so, I do,” she began. “I think that we have to understand though that it is not as simple as that.”

“I think — you know — yes, we should really consider that we can’t criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed,” Harris continued. “But at the point that anyone is being harmed, we have to understand that’s a different matter.”

She later told a town hall audience on CNN that “we should not be criminalizing women who are engaged in consensual, you know, opportunities for employment,” but did not address whether buyers should be punished.

Advocates for decriminalization have been wary of taking Harris’s position at face value because of her history with the issue as the district attorney of San Francisco, when she opposed a measure to decriminalize prostitution. “I think it’s completely ridiculous, just in case there’s any ambiguity about my position,” she told the New York Times in 2008.

Harris declined to clarify her position in response to repeated questions from BuzzFeed News.

Mayor Bill de Blasio The New York City mayor is sticking by comments from an April press conference when he argued that concerns about sex trafficking necessitated that prostitution continue to be illegal, according to a campaign spokesperson.

“I’m not comfortable” with legalizing sex work, he said at the time. “I think we have a very troubling dynamic out there and we need to keep the legal status it has now.”

Sen. Cory Booker “Yes, sex work should be decriminalized,” Booker told BuzzFeed News in a statement. “As a general matter, I don’t believe that we should be criminalizing activity between consenting adults, and especially when doing so causes even more harm for those involved.”

Booker emphasized that policies should focus on harm reduction, saying, “The real question here is what will make sex workers safer and reduce exploitation, and abundant evidence points to decriminalization.”

These comments mark a shift from Booker’s earlier response to the Root in April, when he declined to take a firm position, but appeared to be wary of decriminalization, saying that he had seen “horrific things” as the mayor of Newark.

Former representative John Delaney The former US representative from Maryland would not comment on decriminalization of sex work, but told BuzzFeed News in a statement that his administration would tackle sex trafficking aggressively.

“We will not only go after the buyers who prop up the market for sex trafficking, but most importantly, the human traffickers who have ruined the lives of so many victims,” Delaney said.

The response made no mention of Delaney’s approach to sex workers.

Rep. Seth Moulton The congressional representative for Massachusetts told BuzzFeed News, “Yes, sex work needs to be decriminalized, but [anyone] soliciting prostitution should face stiff criminal penalties.”

“By focusing on the criminalization of soliciting prostitution, we would keep the market for sex work small while helping sex workers,” said Moulton, citing precedents in Norway, Korea, and Israel, among others.

Moulton was one of the few candidates to elaborate on the measures he would take to support this position at the federal level, saying, “The federal government should provide states with the expertise and incentives necessary to focus their law enforcement resources on those who solicit prostitution and away from sex workers themselves.”

He also said the government should go after traffickers and provide resources “to help sex workers avoid exploitative and abusive conditions.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Warren has become known for having a plan on seemingly every issue, but the Massachusetts senator declined to take a position in response to repeated questions from BuzzFeed News asking for clarity on her views on sex work.

“There are, in my view, two competing problems here that we’re trying to deal with. The first one is I believe humans should have autonomy over their own bodies and they get to make their own decisions,” Warren said at a town hall in Ohio.

Warren argued, though, that the focus should be on exploitation of trafficking victims. “The other half is we just have to acknowledge the reality. The world of sex trade involves a lot of trafficking of people who do not have autonomy of their bodies,” she said.

“What I hope we’re trying to look for is not the question about sex — sex is good — but the question of exploitation, and how fine the line that runs between those who have been taken advantage of, who are being trafficked, who are being abused, and those who are not,” Warren said.

Former representative Beto O’Rourke The former Texas representative and failed Senate candidate did not respond to questions.

During a wide-ranging interview with the AP in March, he told the outlet that he “doesn’t have enough experience with the debate over decriminalizing sex work to give an intelligent answer on whether prostitution should be legalized.”

Former senator Mike Gravel David Oks — Gravel’s 18-year-old campaign manager who is widely credited with running the whole operation — told BuzzFeed News the 89-year-old Alaskan candidate’s plank is posted right on his campaign website.

“Encourage states and municipalities to decriminalize all commercial sex work,” the plank says, adding that enforcement should “focus on illegal and coercive sex trafficking, not consenting sex work.”

Gravel’s platform calls for repealing FOSTA-SESTA, “which target sites like Backpage.com that sex workers used to screen clients and ensure safety. Encourage states and municipalities to decriminalize all commercial sex work.” He also wants to establish a national advisory board on sex workers’ rights, composed of professionals in the sex work field.

Gravel, 89, is typically not considered as a candidate in the 23-person field because of his unusual campaign and his initial position that he was not running to win. His campaign has recently said that he’s now “in it to win it.”

New York Could Become The First State To Fully Decriminalize Sex Work
New York legislators introduced a bill Monday aimed at placing the state in the vanguard of a growing sex workers’ rights movement.

New York could become the first state to decriminalize sex work after a group of progressive legislators introduced a sweeping bill Monday aimed at placing the state in the vanguard of a growing sex workers’ rights movement.

Despite significant democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, the bill will likely face an uphill battle over the next year. But it will force public officials and advocates to grapple with an issue that impacts an untold number of women and men around the state.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for like 30 years,” Cecilia Gentili, a former sex worker and member of an advocacy group that helped draft the bill, said at a press conference Monday. “I have been in Rikers Island, and it’s not an experience I would wish on an enemy, not even my worst enemy.”

The Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act is a package of measures that would repeal penalties for selling and buying sex, as well as update other parts of the state law that address prostitution to align them with the repealed charges.

Under the proposed changes, most misdemeanor charges related to prostitution — including promotion charges, which opponents sometimes refer to as “pimping,” — would be repealed. Legislators told BuzzFeed News the decision to repeal the promotion charge is necessary to ensure that sex workers are not criminalized for supporting one another.

“Criminalization of sex work kills my community. Criminalization of sex work stains our records so that we cannot access employment otherwise,” Gentili said.

The bill would allow sex workers and others to apply for criminal record relief if they have previously been convicted on one of the charges being repealed. Additionally, the bill amends language throughout the penal code to make references to buyers and sellers gender neutral.

The bill does not propose any changes to the sections of the penal code that outlaw sex trafficking and offenses related to minors, both of which would remain illegal. One misdemeanor offense related to prostitution in a school zone would remain in effect.

“When we talk about decriminalization, we’re talking about consenting adults,” Julia Salazar, who is introducing the bill in the Senate, told BuzzFeed News. “Anything that involved children or coercion are things that we feel very strongly need to remain in the penal code.”

Salazar’s cosponsor in the Senate is Jessica Ramos, who represents portions of Queens where sex work is heavily policed.

“This entire conversation really happens under the banner of reducing violence,” Ramos told BuzzFeed News. “We don’t want sex workers to experience violence at the hands of customers, or the police, or anybody.”

In the Assembly, the legislation was introduced by Assembly members Richard Gottfried and Yuh-Line Niou. Niou, an immigrant from Taiwan, has been outspoken about the need for reform following the death of Chinese massage parlor worker Yang Song during an NYPD vice raid in 2017. Ron Kim, Dan Quart, and Catalina Cruz cosponsored the bill in the Assembly.

The legislation was drafted in collaboration with a group of advocacy and legal organizations known as Decrim NY. The coalition launched in February, and is also supporting two narrower bills that are making their way through the legislature.

One of those bills — a measure allowing trafficking survivors to vacate convictions for crimes committed while they were being trafficked — has passed through committee in both houses in the state legislature and is due to be scheduled for a full vote.

"We're hopeful that the next week or two it'll get a floor vote in both houses," said Kayleigh Zaloga, a legislative aide in Gottfried's office who helped draft the package bill.

The second bill, which would repeal an anti-prostitution loitering law, has been stalled, according to Mateo Tabares, an organizer with nonprofit Make the Road NY. That measure is also included in SVSTA package bill.

The loitering law has been widely criticized by advocates who say it unfairly allows police to target trans people and women of color based on appearance alone. The Legal Aid Society sued the NYPD in 2016 over the constitutionality of its enforcement of the law. As part of the settlement of the suit, the NYPD recently updated its patrol guide to make arrest guidelines stricter.

The NYPD also did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Andrew Cuomo told the BuzzFeed News the governor’s office would review SVSTA legislation.

The SVSTA bill joins a similar bill the Washington, DC that was reintroduced by Councilmember David Grosso last week. The specific statutes covering sex work vary by city and state, but the DC law also broadly aims to fully decriminalize the sex trade for consenting adults, according to Jessica Raven who is a member of the Decrim NY steering committee and a founding member of Decrim Now DC. That bill would also establish a task force to study the impact of the changes.

Although recent polling from Decrim NY suggests that decriminalization has support among Democrats, with 56% saying they were in favor, the issue has proved difficult for the left to rally around. Only three of the 23 major democratic candidates for president told BuzzFeed News they would support decriminalization, and in some cases it’s not clear that that support extends beyond removing penalties for sellers.

The push to decriminalize sex work has been met by strident opposition. Religious organizations, anti-trafficking advocates, and some feminists, including perhaps most notably Gloria Steinem, have argued against decriminalization.

“I don’t believe that it’s inevitable, and if we want to be advocating for a more just world, I don’t believe we should be advocating for that industry,” said Ane Mathieson, who works with trafficking survivors at the nonprofit Sanctuary for Families.

Although Sanctuary for Families has opposed the broad decriminalization effort, it is backing both Ramos’s bill to vacate trafficking-related convictions and the individual measure to repeal the loitering law.

Despite concerns from anti-trafficking advocates like Mathieson, sex workers have been vocal in their support of decriminalization. More than 100 sex workers traveled from New York City to Albany last month with Decrim NY to lobby legislators on the issue.

“Most people think that when you say ‘decriminalize sex work,’ prostitution will be legal and human trafficking will be free,” Silvia Escobar, a sex worker in Ramos’s district, told BuzzFeed News. “But decriminalization would benefit us trans women who do sex work.”

To promote the bill, Decrim NY is planning a slate of public education initiatives around the issue, canvassing in areas where it has faced opposition.

“The coalition has built a lot of power in the less than 6 months we’ve been public,” Audacia Ray, who cochairs Decrim NY’s policy work group, told BuzzFeed News.

But Ray acknowledged that the effort would take time, saying, “We’re buckling up for a longer conversation.”

For further guidance on trafficking for sexual exploitation see Human Trafficking, Smuggling and Modern Slavery, elsewhere in the Legal Guidance.

Violence against Those Involved in Prostitution
Those who sell sex are often targets of violent crime, which can include physical and sexual attacks, including rape. Evidence suggests that offenders deliberately target those who sell sex because they believe they will not report the crime to the police. Perpetrators of such offences can include clients or pimps. There is a strong public interest in prosecuting violent crimes against those who sell sex. In circumstances where a person who sells sex has reported a criminal offence and decided to support a prosecution, special measures should be considered at the earliest opportunity to give them the necessary support and confidence to provide evidence, including through the use of ABE interviews.

Prosecutors should be alert to Section 41 Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, which protects complainants in proceedings involving sexual offences by placing restrictions on evidence or questions about their sexual history. In cases where physical or sexual violence is used, the Defence is likely to seek to adduce evidence of the complainant’s previous sexual history. The Court may give leave in relation to any evidence or question only on an application made by or on behalf of an accused. Subsections (2)-(6) set out the circumstances in which courts may allow evidence to be admitted or questions to be asked about the complainant's sexual behaviour.

Refer to Special Measures, elsewhere in the Legal Guidance.

Those involved in prostitution may face violence from their partners, especially if they are also controlling their activities. Although these cases may be difficult to identify and prosecute, Prosecutors should be alert to this fact and consider whether domestic and sexual abuse is being used as a form of control and whether or not charges could be instigated against the perpetrator. The CPS guidance on prosecuting cases of domestic abuse provides advice on how to proceed in cases involving those who sell sex and how to identify controlling or coercive behaviour.

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