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- Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson, represented by Marc Cook and Thomas Sheets, filed a federal civil rights suit against the Nevada Judicial Commission. [Nevada Current]
- Should landlords be criminally liable for allowing prostitution to happen in their buildings? [Nevada Appeal]
- A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Democratic AGs, including Nevada’s, seeking to recognize the ERA. [RJ; TNI]
- The median sales prices for homes in Las Vegas hit an all-time high amid dwindling supply. [Vegas Inc.]
Landlords liable for prostitution in their buildings can start with MGM and Caesars properties.
Siegel is going to spend a fortune to fight this lol.
Prostitution… Prostitution in Las Vegas? I am shocked, shocked to learn this is going on in Las Vegas!!.
As a practical matter, license the boys and girls and require weekly medical checks.
Oh, so you think there are only 2 genders? Typical Trumpster.
7:33 Obviously there are 87723094839874398493 genders! who doesn't know that? **woke eye roll at peasants who don't speak 2021 wokeism and cling to their "science"** ewe
Human Trafficing
I read the RJ article. It seems the sponsor's real purpose is to impede human trafficing, not prostitution. How will the landlord know? Should the landlord also become criminally liable for drug trafficing. Again, based on what standard?
Will tenants have a right to sue for unlawful discrimination or landlord harrassment or interference with a possessory right to occupy the leased property? Will the landlord be required to evict? Summary eviction won't be available because the landlord will have to prove the trafficing case in a formal eviction.
– Another example of attempted government overreach.
No the sponsor's real purpose is to appeal to fascist social conservatives with more moralizing bullshit instead of doing something useful like addressing housing, healthcare, and poverty.
I'm thinking we should just require Landlords to inspect all apartments, condos, and SFR's that have tenants, on a weekly basis. That way the landlords can see if the units have drug paraphernalia, or sex slaves/prostitutes providing illegal services within the confines of the tenants' rented residence. That, or require landlords to install security cameras in all rental units for the same purposes.
Or – maybe we make drugs, human sex trafficking, and prostitution illegal so that it won't happen anymore; like we want to do for gun possession and purchases.
This would make it impossible for a person with a prostitution conviction to rent in the future. No landlord would be willing to take a tenant who was convicted on either side of a prostitution transaction. This is especially bad for sex workers, who are often already in very marginal very desperate positions. Now we will make it more difficult for them to have stable, safe housing. How do these lawmakers not think through these obvious unintended consequences? (Answer, for another thread: because the only people who run for office in Nevada are the truly shameless, who aren't our best and brightest by a long shot).
1:09 here. I had to copy and paste and lost half my comment. Here is the rest:
Prostitution is awful. Human trafficking is worse. Both thrive because we have relegated them to the black market. The goal with prostitution should be to control and limit its negative effects through licensure and regulation. I say this as a deeply religious person. Prostitution needs to be legalized in all of Nevada, but especially Clark County, so that we can minimize the harms to sex workers, reallocate police resources to crimes against person/property and eliminate the black market that facilitates human trafficking. It is so frustrating that the best solution is so obvious but one that most people won't even consider.
"Prostitution is awful." I disagree. Human trafficking, where a person is forced into prostitution, is awful. But "voluntary" prostitution is not always awful. Some of the girls deliberately elect this employment opportunity as being preferable to flipping burgers or cleaning toilets. Ask the ladies in Pahrump what their alternative employment opportunities are.
What percentage of teenagers are literate? What percentage are addicted to drugs?
What percentage have criminal records? What percentage have any hope of earning a living without drug marketing, burglaries, muggings, prostitution/pimping?
When they start turning tricks, they are excited at their career. It is only later that they see it as a desperate choice.
But this is nothing to do with the topic, namely holding landlords responsible for renting to prostitutes or pimps. It won't work, because the landlord has no way of knowing that his tenant (or undisclosed subtenant) is a hooker. And once he/she/it is in possession, there is not much a landlord can realistically do. How can I establish that my landlord client has cause to evict? Neither I nor my client has first hand knowledge that the occupant is a prostitute. It is hard enough to evict for loud parties (established by police reports), destruction of the premises (established by photos of holes in walls and interior doors) or unauthorized occupants.
1:09/1:10 here. We both agree (I think?) that prostitution should be legalized. Given that, why does it matter that we assign a different moral judgment to the activity?
They say prostitution is the oldest profession. Maybe, but prostitution's older sister is a career politician.
– just sayin
How is the NJDC funded? I read the federal complaint and I hope she takes them to the cleaners.
I have as much respect for the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission as I do the Nevada Supreme Court, both jokes.
A few years from now, people will wonder why mom and pop landlords fled the state. A landlord has no right to select tenants on his terms. He has no right to evict tenants for non-payment. He has the duty to deter criminal activities – and can be sued if he calls the cops. Why bother?
Slum lords who have the muscle to deal with issues without messy court cases will take the lower tiers, and huge out-of-state and therefore don't-give-a-shit investment trusts will take over the rest.
Are you the same guy who wagered a testicle that flu deaths would outnumber COVID deaths?
Happy 60th Birthday, Pimp Daddy!
Yeah AB 182 is idiotic