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Lawmakers hear calls to regulate illicit massage businesses and improve anti‑trafficking tools (HB 405)
Summary
Law enforcement, prosecutors, victim‑service groups and local officials urged the Criminal Justice Committee to give itself the tools to regulate and shut down illicit massage businesses and other storefronts that advocates say enable human trafficking.
Rep. Erica Leon opened a public hearing on HB 405, asking the committee to create a study committee to propose tools to address so‑called illicit massage businesses that, witnesses said, often mask human trafficking.
Local officials, town councillors and economic-development staff from Derry, New London and other towns described storefronts with covered windows, alleged on‑site sexual activity, and landlords who accept cash leases. Police…
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