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Perry signs prostitution diversion bill modeled on Dallas County program.....
Women arrested for prostitution in the state’s largest counties could get the chance to rehab and rebuild their lives under a new law signed by the governor last week.
Gov. Rick Perry signed signed SB 484, which I wrote about earlier this month, during last week’s flurry of signatures and vetoes. The bill is modeled after Dallas County’s Prostitution Diversion Initiative, which aims to treat those in prostitution as victims rather than criminals by offering a shot at rehab and skills training in lieu of jail time.
Dallas County partners with Dallas police — an officer created the program in 2007 — and volunteer groups that offer services and transitional housing to the alleged prostitutes.
The law will require counties with more than 200,000 people — there are 22 of them in Texas — to start prostitution diversion programs of their own, contingent on receiving state or federal grant funding. That means Dallas County’s program is now enshrined in state law, and that Denton, Collin and Tarrant counties will have to follow suit.
The law will go into effect on Sept. 1.....snip~
Perry signs prostitution diversion bill modeled on Dallas County program | Trail Blazers Blog
What do you think about this Program? Will it work? Some are saying they would have to put together special task forces for this. Is this the better way to go in reducing women in the legal system for such a crime? Texas came up with this idea after the SCOTUS ruled in 2010 that Girls 14 and under could not be charged with Prostitution. Thoughts upon the matter?
Women arrested for prostitution in the state’s largest counties could get the chance to rehab and rebuild their lives under a new law signed by the governor last week.
Gov. Rick Perry signed signed SB 484, which I wrote about earlier this month, during last week’s flurry of signatures and vetoes. The bill is modeled after Dallas County’s Prostitution Diversion Initiative, which aims to treat those in prostitution as victims rather than criminals by offering a shot at rehab and skills training in lieu of jail time.
Dallas County partners with Dallas police — an officer created the program in 2007 — and volunteer groups that offer services and transitional housing to the alleged prostitutes.
The law will require counties with more than 200,000 people — there are 22 of them in Texas — to start prostitution diversion programs of their own, contingent on receiving state or federal grant funding. That means Dallas County’s program is now enshrined in state law, and that Denton, Collin and Tarrant counties will have to follow suit.
The law will go into effect on Sept. 1.....snip~
Perry signs prostitution diversion bill modeled on Dallas County program | Trail Blazers Blog
What do you think about this Program? Will it work? Some are saying they would have to put together special task forces for this. Is this the better way to go in reducing women in the legal system for such a crime? Texas came up with this idea after the SCOTUS ruled in 2010 that Girls 14 and under could not be charged with Prostitution. Thoughts upon the matter?