The Justice Department declined to release more details about the case on Friday night because a court ruled it should remain sealed, said agency spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman. Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman has targeted the Backpage. He has said that Backpage knows it is accepting ads for prostitution, even though specific references to that crime are not present in the ads.
Ramos had urged people to boycott the website. Backpage made headlines in Riverside County in when Moreno Valley school board member Mike Rios went on trial for pimping, ultimately being convicted of three counts of the crime. During the trial, investigators testified that Rios placed prostitution ads on Backpage. Senate floor.
They also then were destroying the evidence that later law enforcement could use to go after these people. This is evil, and this has been happening. To remedy that, Congress last month passed the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act authored by Portman that amended the Communications Decency Act to clarify that prosecutors and sex trafficking victims can take those website operators to court. More in Local News.
