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Proposed Bill Offers Protections for Sex Workers

Whether you are accused of sexual assault, or some other sex crime, your first action following your arrest should be a call to an expert Los Angeles sex crimes defense attorney from Okabe & Haushalter. Strategizing for your defense should begin immediately, giving you the best shot for proving that the charges against you are false.

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Proposed Bill Offers Protections for Sex Workers

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  1. Proposed Bill Offers Protections for Sex Workers

  2. State Senator, Scott Wiener, recently proposed Senate Bill 233 (SB 233) as a state wide measure to protect sex workers who are victims of violent crimes. Sex workers frequently end up as crime victims because perpetrators know that sex workers often do not report violent crimes for fear of being prosecuted for the crime of being a sex worker.

  3. Reporting Violent Crimes Sex workers are frequently victims of violent crimes including sexual assault, robbery, and human trafficking. As previously mentioned, these crimes often go unreported because sex workers fear being prosecuted for their occupation as a sex worker. In the past, law enforcement has not been generally kind to sex worker victims often treating them as though they are to blame for another person’s crimes.

  4. Specified Violent Crimes Under the bill, sex workers will be protected when reporting the following specified violent crimes: Threats Sexual assault Human trafficking Burglary Stalking Blackmail Robbery Extortion Assault Kidnapping

  5. Questions About The Bill’s Language While the bill has received a lot of support so far, some have questioned the actual language of the bill, which provides that sex workers who report specified violent crimes “shall not be arrested for a crime . . .” Critics suggest that this bill leaves open the possibility of letting dangerous criminals, including human traffickers off the hook. If and how the bill’s language is tweaked to remediate this ostensible oversight remains to be seen.

  6. Los Angeles sex crimes defense attorneys understand the difficult position that sex workers are put in when they become victims of violent crimes while they are working and SB 233 aims to protect them from facing prosecution as a result of reporting someone else’s violent, criminal conduct.

  7. Hire an Attorney Okabe & Haushalter 1230 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 300, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 310-430-7799 https://www.southbaylawyer.com/contact_us.aspx

  8. Thank You...

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