March 16, 2021 10:00 PMLegal
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LOS ANGELES The district attorney of Queens, New York the second-largest of New York City’s five boroughs asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out 700 cases of people arrested on charges of “loitering for the purpose of prostitution,” and other charges realted to sex work activities, according to an Associated Press report.
The request by D.A. Melinda Katz comes about a month after the state’s legislature repealed a 45-year-old law against loitering, which had been designed to make arrests for prostitution easier but ended up resulting in widespread racial and gender discrimination by law enforcement. The law became widely known as the “walking while trans” ban.