California DAs shame johns with website photos

Debra Cassens Weiss reports:

In California, prosecutors hope to discourage prostitution by posting photos of johns.

The District Attorney’s office in San Bernardino County began publishing photos of convicted customers in April 2013 at a “Stop-the John” Web page, the Los Angeles Times reports. The photos remain posted for a year.

Now the Orange County DA’s office is taking a similar tack with a “Sex Purchasers” Web page, where johns’ photos will remain posted indefinitely, the story says.

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