At a meeting of a state legislative commission designed to examine the impact of the criminalization of sex work, we testified in favor of decriminalization of these offenses and provided a number of other policy recommendations on the topic. Our full report that we provided to the commission, which includes a detailed background on the history of sex work laws in Rhode Island, can be found below.
Sex Work Decriminalization Commission
Session
2022
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