Document to explain need for Bill to control street sex trade

Enclosed is a publication which summarises the street prostitution issue and how it has been progressively increasing its impact on the southern communities of Auckland since July 2003. This was when the Prostitution Reform Act was passed.

The Act places no restrictions around street prostitution.

We have lived with this growing problem for a decade now and much attention has been given to the disadvantaged who are forced to earn a living as street sex workers.

But now there are additional victims, samples of whom are noted in this publication

Children are seeing things they shouldn’t see, shoppers are being intimidated and street workers operating in residential streets are keeping people awake. When asked to keep quiet they make it very clear they have every right to be there.

What other industry would be permitted to behave in this way?

This publication also shows that street sex trading has existed in our communities even when it was illegal. The solution is not to go back in time, but give local Government the ability to work with street workers and keep their trade away from family homes, churches and schools.

This Bill has been years in the making. We ask for your assistance to encourage public debate around the issues it addresses.

FNL_street_sex_trade_document.pdf

John McCracken
Chair
Otara-Papatoetoe Local Board

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