Dear California State Senate Public Safety Committee: We are writing in opposition to SB 1027, the California Street Prostitution Issues and Options Task Force. First of all, we are very concerned that the composition of the proposed task force is … Continue reading
Category Archives: Criminalization of Poverty
Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco: Final Results
Gallery
This gallery contains 8 photos.
The research findings of the Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco (GCISF) pilot were made public November 12, 2025 on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco. The event had a strong turnout, including excellent press coverage (see below). There … Continue reading
US PROS letter to California Assembly Safety Committee opposing Assembly Bill 379
Gallery
April 25, 2025. We are writing to urgently ask you to oppose AB 379, the Survivor Support and Demand Reduction Act introduced by Assemblymember Maggy Krell. The language of this bill is based on misinformation and is vague and confusing. Most importantly, it … Continue reading
“Stand In” to Protest San Francisco’s High Tech Surveillance Cameras and the Criminalization of Poverty
Gallery
This gallery contains 11 photos.
On December 15, 2024, US PROStitutes Collective and others held an action to protest the new high tech surveillance cameras in the Mission district. Protestors stood on the corner of Shotwell and 21st beside one tower where the cameras are … Continue reading
“Stand In” to Mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Gallery
This gallery contains 2 photos.
Action Alert Update: Bills reinstating loitering for prostitution as a crime have stalled in committee
Gallery
Due to public pressure, none of the three new California bills to re-criminalize loitering for prostitution, AB 2034, AB 2646 or SB 1219, have made it out of committee and are not now expected to pass, but we remain vigilant … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose bills making loitering for prostitution illegal again.
Gallery
Three new California bills, AB 2034, AB 2646 and SB 1219 aim to re-criminalize loitering for the purposes of prostitution. This is a very harmful move as criminalization undermines sex workers’ safety and puts them at greater risk of rape … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose AB 2034. It makes loitering for prostitution illegal again
Gallery
A new California Assembly Bill, 2034, re-criminalizes loitering for the purposes of prostitution. The loitering law (Penal Code Section 653.22) was repealed in 2022 following decades of organizing by the grassroots sex worker rights movement in California, which pointed in … Continue reading
Submission to the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
Gallery
US PROS urges the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls to seriously examine the connections between criminalization of prostitution and violence against women and girls. Criminalization has a harmful and damaging impact on the lives of sex workers. We urge … Continue reading
Sex work and the city: How the policing of prostitution in San Francisco has evolved
Gallery
This gallery contains 1 photo.
by Lydia Sidhom, Bay City News August 17, 2023 AS THE SUN sets over Capp Street in San Francisco’s Mission District each evening, the red lights turn on, and the neighborhood becomes the center for sex work in the city. Cars pass … Continue reading
US PROS Collective 