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hrmjustin

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Mon Jun 9, 2014, 04:50 PM Jun 2014

Council pushes ban on condoms as evidence

ERIN DURKIN

Advocates and Council members are pushing for a full statewide ban on using condoms as evidence of prostitution-related crimes.

They say a policy change announced last month by the NYPD to limit when condoms can be seized as evidence doesn’t go far enough - because they can still be used to prove promotion of prostitution and sex trafficking.

“Police and prosecutors continued confiscation of condoms as evidence is contributing to a public health crisis in New York City,” Andrea Ritchie of the Access to Condoms Coalition said Monday at a hearing on a Council resolution pushing for a change in state law, adding the practice “will have the effect of harming the very individuals promoting and trafficking laws are intended to protect.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/council-pushes-ban-condoms-evidence-blog-entry-1.1822888#ixzz34B3V42mE

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