In San Francisco, ESPLER (Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research, http://esplerp.org/, https://twitter.com/esplerp) filed suit yesterday against several Bay Area DAs and the California Attorney General, in an attempt to get the primary CA law against prostitution overturned on constutitional grounds. This is on a similar basis
In San Francisco, ESPLER (Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research, http://esplerp.org/, https://twitter.com/esplerp) filed suit yesterday against several Bay Area DAs and the California Attorney General, in an attempt to get the primary CA law against prostitution overturned on constutitional grounds. This is on a similar basis
Article about this on VICE: http://www.vice.com/read/a-new-lawsuit-aims-to-decriminalize... Another article: http://48hills.org/2015/03/03/lawsuit-seeks-to-throw-out-law... More details: https://twitter.com/EscortingAdvice/status/57316383250533171... Summary and full text of the brief: http://esplerp.org/here-is-the-brief/ Legal thoughts from the lead lawyer: https://twitter.com/GillSperlein/status/573268807629721600
If you support this effort, you can help fund the legal fees here: http://www.gofundme.com/liberateliberate
There's also a follow-up article from Reason that relates the shutdown of MyRedBook to the shutdown of Silk Road, and how both are a continuing war on citizen safety: Reason article: http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/03/governent-war-on-online-vi...
Finally, a related article from VICE on why there's no Uber for sex work. Essentially, at least in the US, decriminalization needs to happen first. VICE article: http://www.vice.com/read/why-theres-no-uber-for-sex-work-304...