The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to require routine inspections of massage parlors by health officials looking for signs of human trafficking. “Some of the massage parlors in our communities have actually become safe havens for sex trafficking, for human trafficking,” Hahn said. “In the City of El Monte, where I live, there are many massage parlors popping up in obscure places,” Solis said. A representative of another advocacy group said California leads the nation in cases of human trafficking, which includes both sex and labor trafficking, based on data collected by the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said countywide cooperation would be critical in efforts to shut down human trafficking.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 21, 2017 20:48 UTC