Legislature votes to repeal law against loitering for purpos

Legislature votes to repeal law against loitering for purpose of prostitution
POLITICO
2/4/2021
By Bill Mahoney
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Assemblymember Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) dubbed the loitering law as a “female stop-and-frisk.”
ALBANY — The Legislature has approved a bill to remove the crime of loitering for the purposes of prostitution from the books, indicating that a left-leaning criminal justice reform agenda is alive and well after an election season widely characterized as a referendum on new Democratic energy on reform issues.
Reform advocates have spent several years trying to brand the existing law as a “walking while trans” ban. They’ve estimated that up to 75 percent of those arrested under the statute are transgender, and a similarly disproportionate number are Black or Latino.

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