In September 2021, California SB 357 was passed by the House and the Assembly and for reasons unknown was held on Senator Weiner's Desk in Sacramento. The Gov. Newsom recall election came and went and then the June 7th Primary Elections were held. Almost ten months after the passing of the bill it was sent to Governor Newsom's desk and it was signed. It is scheduled to become effective January 1, 2023. Already our communities are seeing the negative effects of this bill.

SB 357 is called the Safer Streets for All Act. The bill rewrote the penal code of "Loitering for purposes of soliciting prostitution" and stated that law enforcement can not intervene with individuals who are loitering for the purposes of soliciting for prostitution (it does not define if you are soliciting to buy or sell). The ACLU made this statement when proposing the bill: "SB357 will move California one step closer to acknowledging sex workers as deserving of full dignity and respect."

During this show we will discuss the impact of that bill which will go into effect in six weeks. Pimps are already starting to bring their girls into California for solicitation. In many of our cities we have started to see a significant increase in the number of individuals soliciting sex walking the streets in scantily clad outfits . We are greatly concerned that while this bill does protect the sex worker from being targeted by law enforcement, we are concerned about who is going to protect the sex worker from pimps, gangs and organized crime? Who is going to protect our children and neighborhoods from being invaded by street sex sellers?

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