From The Crime Report:
in June, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a bill into law that is supposed to partially decriminalize sex work throughout the state. The new law, LD 1435, would institute what’s known as the “Nordic Model” of prostitution laws, which seeks to criminalize people who pay for sex while eliminating criminal charges for sex workers, ostensibly giving sex workers and victims of sex trafficking who report abuse and/or exploitation immunity from prosecution.
The law was passed alongside an act sealing survivors’ records of prostitution convictions and mandating that the state offer the comprehensive services that they need to help them rebuild their lives.
“We are long overdue to better protect and decriminalize sellers engaged in prostitution,” Rep. Lois Reckitt, who sponsored the bill, said in an official statement. Continue reading >>>
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