By Juan Montoya
Do you get along well with streetwalkers?
Can you deal one-on-one with a working girl (or boy)?
Can you talk them into walking the straight and narrow and not hang out in dark street corners?
If you answer yes to these questions, you just may be the ideal person to be Cameron County's point man (or woman) to address the prostitution prevention program that it is under legislative mandate to implement.
This last legislative session produced a plethora of new laws and mandates for municipalities and counties. One of those that slid under the radar was S.B. No. 484 which orders counties to establish a prostitution prevention program under threat of losing its state community probation and jail monies withheld.
As a result, Cameron County is now in the process of implementing the prostitution prevention program and is authorized to charge the miscreants a fee for the service. The bill directs counties to implement "a non adversarial approach involving prosecutors and defense attorneys to promote public safety, to reduce the demand for the commercial sex trade and trafficking of persons by educating offenders, and to protect the due process rights of programs participants."In a nutshell, the bill wants the counties to establish early identification and prompt placement of eligible participants, access of information, counseling, and services relating to sex addiction, sexually-transmitted diseases, mental health, and substance abuse.
The county is also authorized to charge each participant $1,000 for the service which includes deferred adjudication for those who successfully complete the program and don't regress to the wayward road.
The $1,000 fee can be waived, according to the bill, if it is determined that the participant does not have the ability to pay.
Now, we've all heard that morality cannot be legislated, but this is coming pretty close to that. If a participant enters and it is found that he or she has the means to pay and is charged for their participation, could this force them to hit the corner and solicit "johns" or Jane does" to pay the fee?
Now, the county is authorized to employ a person or solicit (?) a volunteer who is:
1. a health-care professional
2. a psychologist
3. a licensed social worker or counselor
4. a former prostitute
5. a family member of a person arrested for soliciting prostitution, among others
We don't know the timeline that counties are required to fill the slot, but if there is a position opened at Human Resources, what would you put under the category where they ask applicants to list their experience for the position?
5 comments:
As the quote clearly explains, the Port of Brownsville has zero to with the Panama Canal. Please list all the ships over the last ten years that traveled through the canal on their way to the port.
The hub, as the article alludes, will be in Cuba. The Brazilian government is spending billions on upgrading the Port of Mariel, which is a beautiful, natural port with excellent access and accommodation for any size ship, making it a perfect strategic hub.
The Port of Brownsville is not a natural port and requires great expensive to keep it dredged at current depth. The channel is too narrow and creates a bottle neck. It is ONLY a port for Northern Mexico that competes with both Corpus Christi and Tampico.
Again another con research job to benefit their bulging deep pockets .
What we need to do is foment a revolution in Nicaragua. In 24 hours recognize the new regime and get the rights to construct a new canal. It worked in Panamá.
Too, late the Chinese and Putin own Nicaragua because our President is too busy playing golf....
Putin busy in the Ukraine. China busy purging their politburo .
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