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November 6, 2008

Craigslist and prostitution

In September of last year, Anne Arundel County police busted four women and accused them of using Craigslist, the popular free classified advertising site on the Internet, to seek prostitution services. Arundel police have been particularly vigilant about this since many of the women selling services are in hotel rooms near at BWI Airport in Linthicum.

Today, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced that Maryland and 42 other states have reached an agreement with the owners of Craigslist that could significantly reduce or even stop postings for illegal sexual services on the site.

Craigslist will require posters of erotic service ads to provide a phone number and pay a fee with a credit card. Craigslist also will "provide the resulting information in response to law enforcement subpoenas," according to a statement from Gansler's office, and money from the ads will be donated to charity.

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Posted by Peter Hermann at 3:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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when people meet online and have sex than nobody cares if one of them paid for sex or not. i cant understand how this agreement can reduce the prostitution.

Posted by: diamond auction | November 29, 2010 2:29 AM

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Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

Coverage will focus on crime trends, problems in neighborhoods in the city and elsewhere, profiles of victims and police officers and try to offer readers a fresh perspective on one of the most vexing issues facing Baltimore and its future.

Contributing to this blog is Justin Fenton, who joined The Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, coverage of the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting. A special report looking into how city police handle rape cases led to sweeping reforms that changed the way sexual assaults are investigated in Baltimore. He was recognized as the best reporter in Baltimore by the City Paper in 2010 and by Baltimore Magazine in 2011.

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