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Proposition K
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Proposition K is a campaign trying to legitimatize prostitution in San Francisco. It has spawned a hot argument over the issue of how to curb human trafficking and defend the lives and health of prostitutes.

Proposition K is drafted by the Erotic Service Providers Union (ESPU). It is a local sex workers alliance. If it is to be implemented it would require San Francisco law enforcement to violate state laws prohibiting prostitution.

The measure also calls for the approximated $1.6 million to $3.2 million presently spent on prostitution-related arrests and prosecutions to be channelized toward other crimes, including violence against prostitutes.

Exponents of Proposition K argue that decriminalization will help to get rid of coercion and violence against sex workers - including those who are trafficked - because prostitutes will be able to report abuses to the police without fearing arrest.

Opponents of the Proposition K, however, say that decriminalization would negatively affect local efforts to forestall human trafficking by contending that California's prostitution laws are habitually used to "investigate and prosecute traffickers and those into exploiting children."

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