{"id":3898,"date":"2014-05-12T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:04:26","slug":"resolution-supporting-the-repeal-of-prostitution-free-zones-amendment-act-of-2014-b20-760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/12\/resolution-supporting-the-repeal-of-prostitution-free-zones-amendment-act-of-2014-b20-760\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Proposed Resolution Supporting the Repeal of Prostitution Free Zones Amendment Act of 2014 (B20-760)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"writeboardtitle\">\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Whereas, the Council of the District of Columbia is currently considering passage of <a title=\"Repeal of Prostitution Free Zones Amendment Act of 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/lims.dccouncil.us\/Legislation\/B20-0760?FromSearchResults=true\">the Repeal of Prostitution Free Zones Amendment Act of 2014 (B20-760)<\/a>, legislation that would permanently repeal the Prostitution Free Zone Act of 2005, which allows the Metropolitan Police Department to permanently declare public space as a \u201cProstitution Free Zone;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"writeboardbody\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p>Whereas, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B has previously voiced its opposition to Prostitution Free Zones in February 2012;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, Prostitution Free Zones do not reduce prostitution and further marginalize sex workers, low income people of color, transgender people, lesbians and gays, and the homeless;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, both the Metropolitan Police Department and the Office of the Attorney General have acknowledged that the implementation of Prostitution Free Zones is likely unconstitutional;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, be it resolved that, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B supports the Repeal of Prostitution Free Zones Amendment Act of 2014 (B20-760) and encourages the Council of the District of Columbia to support the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas, the Council of the District of Columbia is currently considering passage of the Repeal of Prostitution Free Zones Amendment Act of 2014 (B20-760), legislation that would permanently repeal the Prostitution Free Zone Act of 2005, which allows the Metropolitan Police Department to permanently declare public space as a \u201cProstitution Free Zone;\u201d Whereas, Advisory Neighborhood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/12\/resolution-supporting-the-repeal-of-prostitution-free-zones-amendment-act-of-2014-b20-760\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NEWS: Proposed Resolution Supporting the Repeal of Prostitution Free Zones Amendment Act of 2014 (B20-760)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}