{"id":39225,"date":"2019-02-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/entenman-passes-bill-to-crack-down-on-sex-traffickers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:30:00","slug":"entenman-passes-bill-to-crack-down-on-sex-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/entenman-passes-bill-to-crack-down-on-sex-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Entenman passes bill to crack down on sex traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Debra Entenman, D-Kent, 47th Legislative District, passed her first bill as a state legislator out of the state House of Representatives last week by a vote of 96-0. The legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=1055&#038;Year=2019&#038;Initiative=false\" target=\"_blank\">HB 1055<\/a>, addresses a problem in the criminal justice system that sometimes delays law enforcement officers from arresting sex traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, law enforcement can arrest someone without a warrant when probable cause exists the individual has committed a felony, including for violating certain protective orders. Unfortunately, a no-contact order for promoting prostitution and trafficking cases is not one of those situations when a warrantless arrest is allowed.<\/p>\n<p>A no-contact order can be used by victims of sex trafficking to protect themselves from their abusers. Unfortunately, too many traffickers violate those no-contact orders to intimidate or physically harm their victims. Law enforcement officers have to pursue a warrant from a judge to then arrest the trafficker, losing valuable time that can save a victim&rsquo;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Entenman&rsquo;s legislation amends current law to allow for the warrantless arrest for violation of a no-contact order for promoting prostitution and trafficking when probable cause exists. This allows police officers to arrest a trafficker who has a no-contact order against them and has been determined to be a threat.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Imagine being a young woman, a teenager, forced into prostitution after being smuggled into this country. It&rsquo;s a nightmare and this legislation will provide law enforcement another tool to help stop sex traffickers from intimidating or hurting their victims,&rdquo; Entenman said.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate will now consider HB 1055 for passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Debra Entenman, D-Kent, 47th Legislative District, passed her first bill as a state legislator out of the state House of Representatives last week by a vote of 96-0. The legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=1055&#038;Year=2019&#038;Initiative=false\" target=\"_blank\">HB 1055<\/a>, addresses a problem in the criminal justice system that sometimes delays law enforcement officers from arresting sex traffickers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39225"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}