January 2020 Trial Set For Backpage Founders
Michael Lacey, James Larkin and five employees of the site who are charged in the case are scheduled for trial on Jan. 15, 2020.
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Michael Lacey, James Larkin and five employees of the site who are charged in the case are scheduled for trial on Jan. 15, 2020.
The chief executive of Backpage pleaded guilty to state and federal charges including conspiracy and money laundering.
The founders of Backpage and five others at the classified site have been indicted on federal charges in what authorities say was a scheme to facilitate prostitution.
Four Bay Area men arrested for allegedly providing drugs and alcohol to teenage girls and then prostituting them in Salinas and San Jose.
A Santa Rosa man and his mother had operated an illegal brothel in the North Bay for 10 years, employing nearly 150 women and serving hundreds of clients.
A third of all illicit massage businesses in the United States are located in California, according to a new report.
Following an investigation, Rohnert Park authorities arrested a mother and her son for allegedly operating a prostitution ring.
San Francisco has adopted first-of-its-kind policy that shields sex workers reporting a violent crime from being arrested for prostitution.
Officers in Fairfield arrested a man on suspicion of pimping after a 16-year-old girl told officers that he had been trafficking her over the past week.
Felony conspiracy charges against a former Oakland police officer for his involvement with a prostitute were dismissed for the second time.
A lawyer for a sex workers' advocacy group asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco Thursday to overturn a 145-year-old California law that criminalizes prostitution.
San Francisco shuts down a brothel posing as a massage parlor in the Financial District and seeks to close another in the Richmond District.
Sex workers say there needs to be rights for those who choose to be in the sex work industry and safeguards created for women who don't.
An Oakland police officer accused of crimes in connection with a sexual exploitation scandal that roiled the department and others in the Bay Area has been ordered to stand trial on a felony charge of obstruction of justice and a misdemeanor count of prostitution.
An immigration judge has ordered a Northern California prostitute convicted of involuntary manslaughter in death of a Google executive to be deported back to Canada.
The city of San Francisco is suing a Financial District massage parlor alleging that the business is in fact a brothel and has been for years.
There's a law enforcement paradox to Backpage.com, labeled by officials as the largest U.S. internet prostitution ad provider.
Citing federal free speech laws, a judge rejected pimping charges Friday against the operators of a major international website that state attorney general Kamala Harris called the "world's top online brothel."
Observant residents in a San Mateo neighborhood led police to the discovery of an alleged brothel, resulting in two arrests.
A California judge tentatively rejected pimping charges against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services.
Of the 220 licensed massage businesses in San Francisco, over a third were found to have active online listings advertising erotic services.
A coalition of sex workers has gathered almost 6,000 signatures on an online petition, demanding a meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown.
Two Oakland police officers were in court Friday in separate sex scandal cases.
Detectives lured men to a hotel by posing as prostitutes in online ads, and in one case as a teenage girl under 18. The sting ended in 8 arrests.
The operators of an international website that advertises escort services say they'll challenge charges of trafficking prostitutes and pimping on First Amendment grounds.
