SF Voters Deliver a Decisive 'No' on Prop K

by Matt Kelley · 2008-11-05 05:36:00 UTC
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Prostitution will not be decriminalized in San Francisco, at least for now.

Voters made a decisive statement yesterday in the Bay Area, rejecting Proposition K - which would direct the city's police not to enforce laws against selling sex - with a resounding 57% of the vote against.

Last week, the criminal justice blog hosted guests on either side of this issue, and we'll continue to follow thoughts and reactions on the decriminalization of sex work in the future.

Take another look here at Karly Kirchener's blog post in support of Prop K, and Christie Miller's post against the measure.

The statewide Proposition 5, which would have eased mandatory sentences and provided more opportunity for treatment of non-violent offenders, also went down big - by nearly 2 million votes.

Matt Kelley is the Online Communications Manager at the Innocence Project and a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Follow him on Twitter @mattjkelley.
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