The Washington Senate approved legislation by Rep. Debra Entenman, D-Kent, that takes on sex traffickers who attempt to circumvent no-contact orders placed against them by their victims.<\/p>\n
The legislation, House Bill <\/a>1055<\/a>, passed both chambers of the Legislature with an unanimous vote, and heads to the governor’s desk. The Senate passed the bill on March 29 and the House on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n “Young women and teenagers are brought to this country and forced into prostitution,” Entenman said in a news release. “It is horrendous and it must be stopped. That is why I am so proud my first bill to pass the Legislature goes after the promoters of this crime.”<\/p>\n Under this new legislation, when there is probable cause a person under investigation for sex trafficking violates a no-contact order for promoting prostitution and trafficking by contacting their victims, law enforcement can arrest the trafficker without a warrant – something that already exists for many no-contact orders.<\/p>\n Traffickers often violate their no-contact orders in order to intimidate or physically harm their victims and law enforcement loses valuable time stopping those abusers while having to pursue a warrant from a judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Legislation sponsored by Kent’s Entenman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39897"}],"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=39897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39897"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}