SF News Why So Many Girls and Young Women Can't Escape Sex Trafficking on Oakland's International Boulevard Victims of sex trafficking on Oakland's International Boulevard often struggle to escape, while recent changes to a state loitering law intended to protect sex workers have made it more difficult for police to pursue traffickers.
SF News Oakland to Try Using Street Barriers to Curb Sex Work In 'The Blade' The city of Oakland is going to take a page out of San Francisco's playbook to try to discourage sex-work activity on a notorious section of International Boulevard.
SF News Oakland Nonprofit Debuts Mobile Clinic for Exploited Youth, Hosts Town Hall With Local Leaders Dream Youth Clinic in Oakland launched a mobile clinic offering free reproductive health services to teens and young women who've experienced sex trafficking, and it also recently hosted a first-ever town hall providing a forum for girls to speak directly to local leaders.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News AC Transit Bus Crash Right now, we're reading differing accounts of who was injured. The Chron is reporting it was the driver, a passenger, and the driver of the truck. Inside Bay Area, however, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Culinary Digest We do the reading so you can concentrate on eating. Gerald Hirigoyen is at it again, adding Bocadillo to his empire of French Basque eateries here in The City - coverage by Paul Reidinger.
