Decriminalizing Sex Work in Washington, D.C.
We are offering a $100,000 grant to a qualifying local D.C. organization to run a decrim initiative in 2022.
For future reference:
Last updated: 2020-02-15
At least [counter_decriminalizesex]* prostitution-related arrests D.C. residents could have been prevented so far in 2021, had D.C. had the opportunity to vote to decriminalize prostitution in November 2020.
*This is based on a conservative estimate using annual arrest averages from 2017 through 2019. There were 231 prostitution-related arrests in Washington, D.C., in 2017; 554 in 2018; and more than 800 in 2019. Data for 2020 is not yet available.