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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
1
001564
Name:
Mitigating violence against prostitutes
Status:
Type:
Resolution
Passed
File created:
In control:
8/28/2000
Board of Supervisors
On agenda:
Final action:
9/18/2000
9/29/2000
Enactment date:
810-00
Enactment #:
Title:
Resolution urging the Police Department, the Office of the District Attorney, and associated law
enforcement agencies to rigorously prosecute laws against coercion, extortion, battery, rape and other
violent crimes, regardless of the victim's status as a sex worker; and further urging aforementioned
law enforcement agencies to reallocate existing resources for the investigation and prosecution of
prostitutes towards service programs to enable women and their families to leave prostitution and
become independent, as well as to consider the adoption and implementation of the
recommendations of the 1996 San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution Report, the 1998
Commission on the Status of Women Report on Violence Against Women in Prostitution in San
Francisco as well as the Human Rights Commission recommendations to address and reduce
institutional violence and discrimination against prostitutes.
Sponsors:
Tom Ammiano, Sue Bierman
Attachments:
1. Leg_Final
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
REFERRED FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT
COMMITTEE REFERENCE AGENDA AT
THE NEXT BOARD MEETING
President
8/28/2000
1
ADOPTED
Board of Supervisors
9/18/2000
1
Pass
RETURNED UNSIGNED
Mayor
9/29/2000
1