Blogging fast

I’ll be taking a break from blogging for a few months to spend more time in prayer and fasting regarding this transitional season that I am in.  I feel that God is about to start a new chapter in my life and I need to clearly hear His direction.

Voters chose not to legalize prostitution in San Francisco

Ensuring Victims of Human Trafficking
are not Overlooked

As an organization Not for Sale, along with the “No On K” Coalition actively worked to defeat this Proposition and on November 4th San Franciscans came out and voiced their opposition to K. Proponents to K attempted to hide the dangerous implications of K by downplaying the significant role human trafficking plays within the industry in San Francisco and characterizing the efforts of Not for Sale and other organizations as “racial profiling”.

Upon first glance Proposition K, a proposition to decriminalize prostitution, might seem like a ballot measure that would increase the rights of individuals working within the sex industry. In reality this proposition, masquerading as a progressive measure, would have greatly undermined the efforts of local law enforcement to prevent and combat human trafficking. This initiative would have essentially tied the hands of San Francisco law enforcement when attempting to combat human trafficking. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris voiced her opposition for Proposition K stating it “would expressly bar the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes… Many people in the commercial sex trade have been trafficked and forced to participate in commercial sex. This measure would attempt to provide safe harbor to their traffickers.”

The dark secret about Proposition K, discovered by many San Francisco voters, is that Prop K would have created a legal loophole emboldening human traffickers within San Francisco by providing them with virtually free reign. Not for Sale, and many others, worked tirelessly to ensure that victims of human trafficking were not further marginalized by the passage of Proposition K.

Lets continue to work together to ensure the victims of human trafficking have the rights and services they desperately need and deserve.

Proposition K

The purpose of Proposition K when first looked upon seems like an attempt to decriminalize prostitution (take away the criminal penalties for prostitution), but deeper study of it reveals the unsettling truth.

If passed, Prop K will:

* Make it illegal for local law enforcement to gather funds for investigating and prosecuting crimes of trafficking and slavery, thereby making it nearly impossible for them to investigate.

* Take away funds for programs that help victims, women and children, who have been rescued or who have survived from being prostituted or trafficked.

Logistically speaking, if passed, this measure would direct the  San Francisco Police Department and the District Attorney’s office to refuse to enforce California’s prostitution laws. These sections include the laws used to investigate and prosecute traffickers and those involved in exploiting children. If these laws are NOT enforced, it basically gives a hall pass to pimps, traffickers and johns (customers).

According to San Francisco’s DA Kamala Harris, Prop K, “would expressly bar the investigation and prosecution of human  trafficking crimes. Human trafficking is a serious problem in San Francisco. Many people in the commercial sex trade have been trafficked and forced to participate in commercial sex. This
measure would attempt to provide safe harbor to their traffickers.”

Please agree with us in praying for this proposition to not get passed! More info can be found at http://www.noonk.net/ .