March 24, 2025 Assemblymember Nick Schultz Chair, Assembly Public Safety Committee 1020 N Street, Room 111 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Opposition to AB-379 (Krell) Criminalizing “loitering” Dear Chair Schultz: On behalf of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, I write to express…
RE: Support for S278 and S296 To the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation would like to strongly support S278 and S296. These two bills make amendments to Rhode Island’s Commercial Sexual Activity statutes to protect the health, safety,…
Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Advocates for the passage of the “Cecilia’s Act for Rights in the Sex Trades”, New York State Senate Bill S2513 and Assembly Bill A3251 relating to the decriminalization of sex work The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is…
February 25, 2025 Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Support A.1029 (Kelles) / S.3967 (Sepulveda) Dear Legislator: The Woodhull Freedom Foundation supports A.1029/S.3967, legislation to enable victims and witnesses to a crime to be able to seek help without fear of being…
To the Members of the Washington State House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans, My name is Ricci Levy. I am the President and CEO of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a national human rights organization. As a representative of…
February 11, 2025 To the Members of the Oklahoma Senate Public Safety Committee, My name is Ricci Levy. I am the President and CEO of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a national human rights organization. As a representative of Woodhull and…
Emboldened by President Trump’s election, Senator Dusty Deevers, an ultra-conservative abortion abolitionist, pastor, and Oklahoma State Senator, ignores the separation between church and state, Constitutional rights, and human rights in two slates of proposed bills. The first slate of eight…
In 2010, by presidential proclamation, President Obama declared January National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. For the past 15 years, every presidential administration has continued this tradition, which seeks to raise awareness of the issue and highlight domestic and international efforts…
Today, January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v Paxton. This extremely consequential case for the protection of free speech challenges Texas House Bill 1181, an age verification law that Texas enacted…
December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. For over 20 years, memorials and vigils have been held on this day to honor the sex workers lost to physical and systemic violence. While this day initially…