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Vallejo council orders follow‑up on prostitution enforcement, civil abatement and gun‑violence tools
Summary
After receiving legal and police briefings, the council directed staff to pursue a package of measures — traffic/parking changes, problem‑oriented policing, demand‑reduction outreach, and a phased plan to evaluate use of gun‑violence restraining orders — and to return with feasibility and resource estimates on short timetables.
The Vallejo City Council in a multi-part public‑safety discussion on Sept. 2 asked city staff to move forward with a set of non‑ordinance tools to target street‑level prostitution and related quality‑of‑life crimes along Sonoma Boulevard and other hotspots. City Attorney Hampton Jackson and police staff advised the council that state law (including AB 379 and SB 357) and the California red‑light and drug abatement statutes already provide civil and criminal tools; staff recommended against creating a local prostitution ordinance because it would not materially expand enforcement authority.
Instead, the council asked staff to develop an enforcement and deterrence package that includes: focused traffic engineering (no‑stopping/no‑standing…
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