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Seattle Escorts: Port Townsend-Jefferson County

seattleescortlover — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:13:06 +0000

Guided walking tour — Historic downtown buildings, an old brothel and “Underground Port Angeles.” Chamber of Commerce, 121 E. Railroad Ave., 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets $12 adults, $10 senior citizens and students, $6 ages 6 to 12, children younger than 6 admitted free. For reservations, phone 360-452-2363, ext. 0.
Art classes in oil, acrylic and pastel — Friday mornings, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.. $20 per class. Beginners to intermediate. Instructor teaches to the level of the student. For information and directions, phone Susan at 360-457-6994 or 360-477-1024. ADA/wheelchair-accessible.
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Guided walking tour — Historic downtown buildings, an old brothel and “Underground Port Angeles.” Chamber of Commerce, 121 E. Railroad Ave., 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets $12 adults, $10 senior citizens and students, $6 ages 6 to 12, children younger than 6 admitted free. For reservations, phone 360-452-2363, ext. 0.

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Seattle Escorts: Shoreline Police Blotter: iPad Thefts Continue at Shorewood High School

seattleescortlover — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:25:27 +0000

JAN 27
LARCENY: A woman, living in the Meadowbrook Apartments, pawned a ring that her 3-year-old daughter took from a neighbor’s apartment.
FRAUD: Someone made five fraudulent charges on a debit card, totaling $649.60. The victim’s card is kept in a safe, and they don’t know how the number was obtained.
DRUNKENNESS: A man, who was passed out on the side of the road on Ashworth Ave. N., was intoxicated and unable to care for himself. He was transported to NW Hospital for detox.
FIREARM: Two handguns were found inside of an apartment, in the 20000 block of 15th Ave. N.E., where a DEA taskforce had served a warrant earlier in the week.
JAN 28
PROSTITUTION: Two people were involved in prostitution activity, near the Rodeway Inn on Aurora Ave. N.

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Seattle Adult Entertainment: Backpage.com targeted by Wash. lawmakers over escort ads, child sex trade

seattlesleuth — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:37:39 +0000

One adult ad that appeared on backpage.com (Credit: backpage.com)
(CBS/AP) OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state lawmakers on Friday heard impassioned pleas to clamp down on classified-advertising companies that don’t require ID, before allowing sex-related ads to be posted online.
Speaking at a Senate hearing, clergy members, law enforcement, and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn condemned Backpage.com, an online clearinghouse with a robust adult escort section, for not adequately attempting to verify the age of those listed in the ads on its site.
Backpage.com has been the nation’s leading source of online sex escort ads since Craigslist.org shuttered its adult services section in September 2010.
Critics estimate Backpage’s parent company Village Voice Media makes more than $22 million per year from sex ads, a figure the company has not disputed. It owns 13 weekly newspapers, including Seattle Weekly.

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Seattle Massage Parlors: WA lawmakers seek to ban sale of underage sex ads

massageseattle — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:00:36 +0000

… This is political pandering at its finest,” Suskin said.
Bruce Johnson, an attorney who is a leading scholar on the First Amendment and advertising, said the bill appears to run afoul of federal law.
The Communications Decency Act “severely hamstrings state regulation in this area,” Johnson said, adding that the bill may also be at odds with the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and the First Amendment.
Backpage.com has been the nation’s leading source of online sex escort ads since Craigslist.org shuttered its adult services section in September 2010.
Other sex-trafficking bills introduced Monday would strengthen rules against pimping out those with mental disabilities, permit the state to inspect foot massage parlors suspected as fronts for prostitution and make it easier to seize the assets of those with ties to sex trafficking in civil court.

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Seattle Escorts: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

seattleescortlover — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:36:48 +0000

The biggest question looming over the legislative crackdown on escort ads is whether it would stand up to what Kline, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, called “inevitable litigation.” Legal issues involving protections for media advertising complicate the otherwise seemingly black and white issue of fighting child exploitation online.
Backpage’s parent company, Village Voice Media, has defended the site—which has been linked to the sexual exploitation of children—defending its escort ads as a First Amendment issue. (They make $20 million annually off the site.)
The mother of a young woman who was pimped out on Backpage.com offered a rejoinder to concerns about suppression of free speech at today’s hearing: “Whose voice are we protecting? Are we protecting the abuser? Are we protecting the buyer? Are we protecting the website that makes millions?” She added “I have a daughter that was convicted on prostitution charges at the age of 15. My entire family has been victimized.”

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Seattle Escorts: Kent trial date continued for ex-UW athlete Venoy Overton

seattleescortlover — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:37:23 +0000

CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter file photo
Venoy Overton faces an April 2 trial date in Kent for second-degree promoting prostitution.
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Overton, 23, of Seattle, posted bail June 30 after about two weeks in the county jail in Kent. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree promoting prostitution.
Kent Police began their investigation of Overton in May when undercover officers contacted an 18-year-old woman for prostitution activity on Pacific Highway South, a well-known area for prostitution in Kent. That woman told police that Overton had arranged for her to work the streets as a prostitute, according to charging papers.
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Overton reportedly told detectives he took the woman to the “track” (a term used for high areas of prostitution) because he knew he was going to get some money. He also told them he knew what he did was wrong and stated he screwed up.

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Seattle Escorts: Georgetown Residents On Edge About Rise In Thefts

seattleescortlover — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:13:27 +0000

Residents of Georgetown—tucked between I-5 and the industrial area around the Duwamish River in the Seattle Police Department’s South Precinct—say they have felt ignored by police over the last few years. The South Precinct has gone through three police captains in three years, and Georgetown residents say no one from SPD has shown up to one of their monthly community meetings to check in with the neighbors about problem-plagued motels, chopped-up bodies, or the recent uptick in property crimes.
Some neighbors complained about open prostitution and drug dealing—”we’ve seen one of the drug dealers sell to one of the sex offenders,” one man said—while one Georgetown resident told police thieves have been taking “anything metal that’s not bolted down” from homes in the neighborhood. That includes everything from planter boxes, to license plates, to the metal address numbers on the sides of houses, another Georgetown resident told PubliCola.

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Seattle Massage Parlors: WA lawmakers seek to ban sale of underage sex ads

massageseattle — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:29 +0000

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Seattle Adult Entertainment: Haugen’s obstruction leaves voters little choice

seattlesleuth — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:49:21 +0000

Will she give other communities the opportunity to choose whether to keep the cameras or not? From The Herald: “Haugen said she’d fight against … requiring a vote before cameras can be used. ‘I don’t agree with that,’ she said.”
Initiatives are necessary when politicians take the ostrich approach, sticking their head in the sand hoping that ignoring the problem will make it go away. It doesn’t work that way (RE: Initiative 695).
The Herald has done a stellar job exposing the corruption this program breeds. The red-light camera company executives who impersonate local citizens to promote their product, the police officers who prostitute themselves to maintain the cameras’ cash flow, and the city councils that can’t objectively review the cameras’ failure because (when faced with internal emails) they’ve admitted they’re hooked on the money.

See the full article from “HeraldNet”

Seattle Escorts: Guest commentary / Red-light cameras Haugen’s obstruction leaves voters little …

seattleescortlover — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:38:13 +0000

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