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Survey of United States Diversion Programs: Sex Work and Sex Sex Work and Sex Trafficking TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................. 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................... 7 ALABAMA .................................................................................................................................. 11 ALASKA ..................................................................................................................................... 13 ARIZONA .................................................................................................................................... 15 ARKANSAS ................................................................................................................................ 19 CALIFORNIA .............................................................................................................................. 20 COLORADO ............................................................................................................................... 25 CONNECTICUT ......................................................................................................................... 26 DELAWARE ............................................................................................................................... 28 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ......................................................................................................... 31 FLORIDA .................................................................................................................................... 33 GEORGIA ................................................................................................................................... 34 HAWAII ....................................................................................................................................... 38 IDAHO ........................................................................................................................................ 41 ILLINOIS ..................................................................................................................................... 42 INDIANA ..................................................................................................................................... 44 IOWA .......................................................................................................................................... 45 KANSAS ..................................................................................................................................... 46 KENTUCKY ................................................................................................................................ 47 LOUISIANA ................................................................................................................................ 49 MAINE ........................................................................................................................................ 52 MARYLAND................................................................................................................................ 53 MASSACHUSETTS .................................................................................................................... 56 MICHIGAN .................................................................................................................................. 57 MINNESOTA .............................................................................................................................. 60 MISSISSIPPI .............................................................................................................................. 63 MONTANA .................................................................................................................................. 64 NEBRASKA ................................................................................................................................ 65 NEVADA ..................................................................................................................................... 66 NEW HAMPSHIRE ..................................................................................................................... 68 NEW JERSEY ............................................................................................................................ 70 NEW MEXICO ............................................................................................................................ 71 NEW YORK ................................................................................................................................ 73 NORTH CAROLINA ................................................................................................................... 78 NORTH DAKOTA ....................................................................................................................... 79 OHIO .......................................................................................................................................... 81 OKLAHOMA ............................................................................................................................... 82 OREGON .................................................................................................................................... 83 PENNSYLVANIA ........................................................................................................................ 86 RHODE ISLAND......................................................................................................................... 88 SOUTH CAROLINA .................................................................................................................... 89 SOUTH DAKOTA ....................................................................................................................... 90 TENNESEE ................................................................................................................................ 91 TEXAS ........................................................................................................................................ 92 UTAH ........................................................................................................................................ 102 VERMONT ................................................................................................................................ 104 VIRGINIA .................................................................................................................................. 106 WASHINGTON ......................................................................................................................... 109 WEST VIRGINIA ...................................................................................................................... 112 WISCONSIN ............................................................................................................................. 114 WYOMING ................................................................................................................................ 115 2 INTRODUCTION About the Amara Legal Center The Amara Legal Center (“Amara”) provides free legal services to anyone located in DC, Maryland, or Northern Virginia who was harmed while involved in commercial sex. Most of Amara’s clients are victims of sex trafficking, but Amara provides these services regardless of whether someone was engaged in sexual exchange due to choice, circumstance or coercion. Since 2013, Amara has served over 390 clients. Although many believe that sex trafficking only occurs overseas or among foreign nationals, the vast majority of Amara’s clients are U.S. citizens who were born and raised in the DC metro area. Amara serves both juveniles and adults. Amara provides brief legal advice, partial representation, and full representation for civil legal issues such as civil protection orders, divorce, child custody and support, name changes, living wills, and power of attorney cases. In addition to civil legal services, Amara also provides victim-witness advocacy services, criminal defense, and representation in criminal record sealing, expungement, and vacatur cases. Amara’s Clients and the Criminal Justice System Involvement in the criminal justice system impacts most of Amara’s clients, regardless of the legal issues they are seeking to resolve. Involvement may come from being arrested for prostitution or solicitation1; arrests for drug use; mental illness that may precede, begin through, or be exacerbated by sex trafficking; struggles with housing and homelessness; and a variety of crimes related to survival like shoplifting and trespassing. The vast majority of the crimes that Amara’s clients are arrested for are low level misdemeanors. Of these misdemeanors, roughly 90% of them are prostitution or prostitution- related offenses. A typical situation involves a trafficker posting online commercial sex advertisements for one of his victims against her will and then using threats of bodily harm to coerce her into the selling of sexual services for money. About the Survey As many of our clients have a criminal history, Amara wanted to find a way to disrupt their entrance into the
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