NEW ARIZONA LAW AGAINST ONLINE ADULT ADS ETC

[davephx]

NEW ARIZONA LAW AGAINST ONLINE ADULT ADS ETC
See press release after highlights:

Advertisements, including online ads, for escort services and massage therapists include a business license number and must have written permission of any women in the ad with evidence they are not minors.

This applies to individual escorts and massage ads
- Escort or massage license number
- Escort or massage therapist maintain on file for 1-year proof of age of any escort advertised.
- Civil fine of $500, $1000, $5000 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd or more offense.

"Escort" means a person who for consideration agrees or offers to act as a companion, guide or date for another person or who agrees or offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease for another person.

Fines go to the Human Trafficking Victims Assistance Fund.

Criminal prostitution includes anyone who "encourages" any person "to become a prostitute or engage in an act of prostitution." (websites?)

A prostitute can avoid charges if she claims to be a victim of "sex trafficking."

Child prostitution now includes if knows or "should have known" age 15-17 is a class 2 felony with mandatory minimum on the first offense of 7 years in prison, presumptive 10.5 years and maximum 21 years in prison. Longer mandatory prison for 2nd offense and longer terms if "pimp" who receives any money, houses, transports, etc.

Note Phoenix LE has been doing massive entrapment stings with ads for age 18 or 19, pictures of older adults and than mentioning when meet or phone age 17 to entrap those that don't know the law. In April 2014 in 2 days 14 customers were caught in this entrapment and face child prostitution charges.

Press Release:
4/22/14 - PHOENIX (AP) - Gov. Jan Brewer signed sweeping legislation Tuesday that aims to curb human trafficking and was championed by the wife of U.S. Sen. John McCain.

Brewer, who made the issue a priority during her State of the State address, signed the bill into law during a news conference.

House Bill 2454 toughens penalties for trafficking adults for prostitution, and targets businesses such as massage parlors and escort services that advertise online. It requires advertisers to post their license numbers, and they must also have written permission of any women they depict and have evidence they are not minors.

"The goal of this legislation is to further discourage criminals from inflicting this horror on people of Arizona, particularly our children," Brewer said. But we must and we will remain active, vigilant and ready to act in order to end this evil in Arizona."

Cindy McCain, who sat on a governor's task force that came up with the outlines for the bill, said the legislation would put Arizona at the forefront of the fight against human trafficking by imposing harsh penalties for pimps.

"What this task force has done and what the governor has done in putting this House bill together is literally on the cutting edge of what's going on with this issue and has been followed around the world," McCain said.

McCain has been championing human-trafficking legislation not only in Arizona but in other states, especially ones that host major events such as the Super Bowl, which she says attract traveling pimps and prostitutes. The proposed Arizona law will help close off the state to those traffickers, she said.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, increases the minimum penalties for a child-prostitution conviction from 10 years to 24 years in prison. It also makes pimping a child or adult a racketeering offense that will allow asset seizures.

The bill received unanimous support in both chambers of the Arizona Legislature

[Chica Chaser]

Originally Posted by davephx

Note Phoenix LE has been doing massive entrapment stings with ads for age 18 or 19, pictures of older adults and than mentioning when meet or phone age 17 to entrap those that don't know the law. In April 2014 in 2 days 14 customers were caught in this entrapment and face child prostitution charges.

And any dumbfuck that gets caught up in that deserves exactly what he gets.

The new advertising laws are an interesting twist, and enforcement will be interesting to watch