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On June 10, 2025 SWOP LA’s own Ashley Madness testified in front of the California Senate Public Safety Committee to speak out about AB379. The committee reviews and studies legislation related to criminal procedure, the Penal Code, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Why should you be concerned about this assembly bill? The state is about to make it a deportable crime to smoke a cigarette outside of a strip club or circle the block looking for parking on the way to a porn set!
That ‘loitering provision’ of the bill would make it a deportable crime to “loiter with the intent to purchase a commercial sex act. ” This vague language provides law enforcement with even more opportunities to make arrests based entirely on profiling & bias. Further it criminalizes “loitering” on your way to otherwise legal behavior, like going to a strip club or working on a porn set.
Watch the full testimony below and click here to help stop this harmful bill!