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Under Nevada state law, any county with a population of up to 700,000, as of the last decennial census [19] is allowed to license brothels if it so chooses. [6] Incorporated towns and cities in counties that allow prostitution may regulate the trade further or prohibit it altogether.
While prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada, it is illegal outside these licensed brothels. Prostitution is illegal under state law in Clark County, which contains Las Vegas and its metropolitan area. Other counties may choose to allow it, if they desire to. Currently Carson City (an independent city), Douglas County, Eureka County, [4 ...
Currently six of Nevada's seventeen counties have active brothels (all being rural counties); as of February 2018, there are 21 brothels in Nevada. [51] Prostitution outside the licensed brothels is illegal throughout Nevada. Prostitution is illegal in the major metropolitan areas of Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City, where most of the ...
Although illegal, 90% of prostitution in Nevada occurs in Las Vegas. [15] In 2009 Las Vegas was identified by the FBI as one of 14 cities in the U.S. with high rates of child prostitution. [16] Las Vegas police claimed that "roughly 400 children are picked off the streets from prostitution each year."
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office arrested 56 suspects during a North Highlands undercover operation last month attempting to stem prostitution and human trafficking.
The Oakland Police Department arrested a 51-year-old woman at T&S Therapy, a purported "massage and spa business" in the borough, and charged her with prostitution, possession of a controlled ...
The California Legislature has approved a bill to crack down on child prostitution and allow prosecutors to charge anyone who purchases sex from a minor 15 or younger with a felony.
Nevada is the only state in the United States in which prostitution is legal, although only in 10 rural counties and only in licensed houses. There was no state law on prostitution in Nevada until 1971, when a section of the Nevada Revised Statutes effectively legalized prostitution in counties with a population of under 400,000. [80]