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Mesa adopts tougher massage parlor regulations by Associated Press (March 9th, 2011 @ 8:15am)
MESA, Ariz. – Mesa council members approved tougher rules for massage parlors as the city cracks down on businesses it says are fronts for prostitution.
The regulations were adopted by the City Council on Monday, a year after the city approved another set of rules that failed to give police enough enforcement tools.
The East Valley Tribune reports Mesa now requires parlor employees to post massage licenses in a prominent area.
Mesa will not give a license to operators or managers who are facing misdemeanor or felony charges in relation to any other massage operations.
The rules also require a manager to be on duty and limit the amount of time an operation can claim to have a temporary manager.

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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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It’s not all mud and bullets
By Joseph MortonWorld-Herald News Service
Published: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:22 AM CST
CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan – Nobody’s saying life here is all candy and roses. But there is a massage parlor.
Most of the more than 300 members of the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 1-134th Cavalry Squadron deployed to Kabul right now are stationed at Camp Phoenix, with a smaller contingent down the road at Camp Dubs.
Camp Phoenix isn’t pretty. It’s all concrete, rocks and gray mud, dotted with squat, utilitarian structures.
The air of Kabul can burn your throat, and the wet snow creates muddy paths and massive puddles. Because the base is considered to be under relatively higher threat, weapons are kept loaded.

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ALYSSA SCHUKAR/THE WORLD-HERALD
Published Wednesday March 9, 2011
For troops: Mud, ammo … pizza
ONLY IN THE WORLD-HERALD
CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan — Nobody’s saying life here is all candy and roses. But there is a massage parlor.
Most of the more than 300 members of the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 1-134th Cavalry Squadron deployed to Kabul right now are stationed at Camp Phoenix, with a smaller contingent down the road at Camp Dubs.
Camp Phoenix isn’t pretty. It’s all concrete, rocks and gray mud, dotted with squat, utilitarian structures.
The air of Kabul can burn your throat, and the wet snow creates muddy paths and massive puddles. Because the base is considered to be under relatively higher threat, weapons are kept loaded.
The soldiers miss their homes, their friends and families, their own cars. They’re making plenty of sacrifices to be here.

See the full article from “Omaha World-Herald”

Mesa adopts tougher massage parlor regulations
Associated Press – March 9, 2011 9:24 AM ET
MESA, Ariz. (AP) – Mesa council members approved tougher rules for massage parlors as the city cracks down on businesses it says are fronts for prostitution.
The regulations were adopted by the City Council on Monday, a year after the city approved another set of rules that failed to give police enough enforcement tools.
The East Valley Tribune reports Mesa now requires parlor employees to post massage licenses in a prominent area.
Mesa will not give a license to operators or managers who are facing misdemeanor or felony charges in relation to any other massage operations.
The rules also require a manager to be on duty and limit the amount of time an operation can claim to have a temporary manager.

See the full article from “KOLD-TV”

ALYSSA SCHUKAR/THE WORLD-HERALD
Published Wednesday March 9, 2011
It’s not all mud and bullets
ONLY IN THE WORLD-HERALD
CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan — Nobody’s saying life here is all candy and roses. But there is a massage parlor.
Most of the more than 300 members of the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 1-134th Cavalry Squadron deployed to Kabul right now are stationed at Camp Phoenix, with a smaller contingent down the road at Camp Dubs.
Camp Phoenix isn’t pretty. It’s all concrete, rocks and gray mud, dotted with squat, utilitarian structures.
The air of Kabul can burn your throat, and the wet snow creates muddy paths and massive puddles. Because the base is considered to be under relatively higher threat, weapons are kept loaded.
The soldiers miss their homes, their friends and families, their own cars. They’re making plenty of sacrifices to be here.

See the full article from “Omaha World-Herald”

… It’s come a long way,” said Dennis Kavanaugh, chairman of the council’s public safety committee. “I think the changes are reasonable from a public safety perspective and an industry perspective.”
The issue arose after police tracked 2009 crime statistics and found that of 49 short-stay hotels and motels, 10 accounted for 65 percent of the industry’s 2,970 calls for service.
Most ordinances take effect a month after passage, but this one will have a 90-day breaking-in period so hotels can train their staffs on how to implement the law.
Hotels would be subject to civil fines ranging up to $2,500 for violating the law.
Also Monday the council:
-Approved tougher massage parlor rules, tweaking an ordinance that took effect early last year after Mesa became alarmed over the number of suspicious parlors in the city. One of the biggest changes requires parlors to have managers on duty at all times.

See the full article from “AZ Central.com”

If victims do not recognize themselves as such, it is harder for police to identify and help them.
Amira Birger, 25, a former teen prostitute, never crossed paths with police in her two years in the sex trade. It took years before she recognized herself as a trafficking victim.
Her plight began at age 16 when a friend took Birger to a swingers club. A day later, she was taken to the apartment of a man they met at the club. Then she was shuffled to another home where she was forced to sleep behind a couch for two weeks without showering or changing clothes.
Birger said her way out from behind the couch was to have sex with men at her pimp’s direction, and she moved on to perform sex acts in a massage parlor near 11th Street and Indian School Road.

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If victims do not recognize themselves as such, it is harder for police to identify and help them.
Amira Birger, 25, a former teen prostitute, never crossed paths with police in her two years in the sex trade. It took years before she recognized herself as a trafficking victim.
Her plight began at age 16 when a friend took Birger to a swingers club. A day later, she was taken to the apartment of a man they met at the club. Then she was shuffled to another home where she was forced to sleep behind a couch for two weeks without showering or changing clothes.
Birger said her way out from behind the couch was to have sex with men at her pimp’s direction, and she moved on to perform sex acts in a massage parlor near 11th Street and Indian School Road.

See the full article from “Tucson Citizen”

Mesa Endorses Tougher Massage Parlor Rules
Updated: Friday, 18 Feb 2011, 4:19 PM MSTPublished : Friday, 18 Feb 2011, 4:19 PM MST
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Mesa’s massage parlor ordinance has only been on the books for 11 months and already the city council is taking steps to end loopholes and make it tougher.
Mesa’s revenue and licensing administrator says sections of the code are ambiguous and other sections are not accomplishing the result they were intended to achieve.
The East Valley Tribune reports Mesa adopted a tougher massage parlor ordinance because the businesses were met with relatively lax enforcement laws allowing them to stay open all hours.
Mesa’s revised ordinance is likely to be approved in March.

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If victims do not recognize themselves as such, it is harder for police to identify and help them.
Amira Birger, 25, a former teen prostitute, never crossed paths with police in her two years in the sex trade. It took years before she recognized herself as a trafficking victim.
Her plight began at age 16 when a friend took Birger to a swingers club. A day later, she was taken to the apartment of a man they met at the club. Then she was shuffled to another home where she was forced to sleep behind a couch for two weeks without showering or changing clothes.
Birger said her way out from behind the couch was to have sex with men at her pimp’s direction, and she moved on to perform sex acts in a massage parlor near 11th Street and Indian School Road.

See the full article from “Arizona Republic”