Dallas Adult Entertainment: OK, So Dallas Is Changing the Way it Deals with Prostitutes. But What About …
OK, So Dallas Is Changing the Way it Deals with Prostitutes. But What About the Johns?
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While the focus of this week’s National Prostitute Diversion Conference was Dallas’s collaborative approach to treating prostitutes as victims and diverting them to programs that include drug treatment, counseling and job training, many of the attendees repeatedly asked what was being done to enforce laws against men who pay for sex.
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Sgt. Louis Felini, the Dallas police officer responsible for creating the city’s Prostitute Diversion Initiative, was quick to answer. “Right now we’re targeting mostly the female population, but that’s going to change sometime in the next year,” he said. New ways to enforce the law — which prohibits prostitution for both the seller and buyer — against johns are under discussion, he added, including the possibility of yanking truckers’ licenses if they’re caught soliciting.