Maxine Doogan Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:42:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Maxine Doogan Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Gov. Newsom Signs SB 233 Sex Worker Protection Bill into Law in California https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/gov-newsom-signs-sb-233-sex-worker-protection-bill-into-law-in-california-49133/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/gov-newsom-signs-sb-233-sex-worker-protection-bill-into-law-in-california-49133/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:52:26 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=49133 California Gov. Gavin Newsom today held true to a promise he made to sign into law SB 233 — a bill that prohibits the arrest of sex workers who report being victims of, or witnesses to, violent crimes. The state legislature sent SB 233 to Newsom’s desk last week. The new law, which as a bill was sponsored […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/gov-newsom-signs-sb-233-sex-worker-protection-bill-into-law-in-california-49133/feed/ 0 49133 Anti-sex work bill SB 1204 withdrawn after failing to garner enough votes in Calif. Senate Committee https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/anti-sex-work-bill-sb-1204-withdrawn-after-failing-to-garner-enough-votes-in-calif-senate-committee-24467/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/anti-sex-work-bill-sb-1204-withdrawn-after-failing-to-garner-enough-votes-in-calif-senate-committee-24467/#respond Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:29:08 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24467 Sacramento, Calif. — California Senate Bill 1204 (SB 1204), which aimed to broaden the definition of criminal “pandering” in the state, and in the process essentially eliminate harm reduction and health services for sex workers, was withdrawn from the Senate Committee on Public Safety Tuesday and is very likely dead. The amendment to the state’s pandering statute […]

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