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Donny Youngblood 1350 Norris Road, Bakersfield, California 93308-2231
Sheriff-Coroner Telephone (661) 391-7500
TRAINING BULLETIN
Issue: 23-08 DATE: January 20, 2023
Senate Bill 357: Safer Streets for All Act
California State Senator. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) authored SB 357 (Safer Streets for all
act). It was passed and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom and will take effect January
1st, 2023. SB 357 repeals provisions of California law criminalizing “loitering with the intent to
engage in prostitution.”
Existing law prohibits soliciting or engaging in an act of prostitution, as specified. Existing law also
prohibits loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, or directing,
supervising, recruiting, or aiding a person who is loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, or
collecting or receiving all or part of the proceeds of an act of prostitution.