Here in Milwaukee, the local paper reports on recent cases of teens involved in having sex for money off Craigslist.
Last week I blogged about Dallas County needing some encouragement to take action on a strip club that had a then 12-year-old girl dancing at the club. Turns out the law didn’t specify a penalty for [...]
I have a lot on my mind lately. I do plan on blogging more in the days to come. For right now, I have a whole month of news updates. Many news links came to my attention but I’ve chosen just a few to link to today.
Read about an ordinance in Portland, Oregon targeting homeless [...]
I’m back with a whole month’s worth of news links.
Lots of news about arrests of five teens and two adults for sexually assaulting and pimping out teen girls in Fort Worth Texas.
A man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in Missouri for forcing teen girls into prostitution and to pay over a [...]
Good news from DC as Congress lifted the restriction on funding for needle exchange programs in the Capitol.
To follow up from a previous news link, in Tennessee a woman pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and other charges involving pimping at least one teen and involving another in her efforts.
A teen girl testified in a trial [...]
A bill has preliminarily passed the Assembly ensuring female sexual assault survivors will be offered emergency contraception at Wisconsin hospitals. Right now many hospitals across the state don’t offer it or even have a supply.
A report from Chapin Hall comparing youth leaving foster care in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin found that youth who had more [...]
For this week’s news links…
If you remember almost a couple of weeks ago I posted about an amazing new booklet on police brutality against women of color and trans people of color here. To follow up on that check out the Nov/Dec issue of ColorLines. A series of articles detail an investigation into fatal police [...]
On this week’s news links of note…
Lots of quick action in Philadelphia and supporters around the globe didn’t result in bouncing a sitting judge who refused to see how a young women in the sex trade could be raped. But the discussion and public challenge she received is a strong statement.
In the New York Times [...]
I’m back from presenting at conferences in Ohio and Georgia. More soon about that but first the weekly news links.
Indiana is continuing public hearings on youth homelessness and is struggling to come up with solid numbers.
An arrest in Dallas resulted after police found a brazen ad actually offering someone underage for prostitution.
The safer injection site [...]
Here are a few news links for the week.
Indiana is looking into homeless and runaway youth, especially rural youth are struggling even more. In Sacramento, CA though a local homeless youth center just got a wonderful new home. Take a look>>
A teen runaway is credited with bringing a woman running a escort service and recruiting [...]
Excellent youth organizing to report first in this week’s news updates. Affordable housing for families means less homelessness and less youth running away from crowded apartments of two or more families sharing one place. And that means less youth in the sex trade. Youth in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn are organizing against gentrification and [...]
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