Current through Chapter 61 of the 2024 Legislative Session and 2024 Executive Orders 125, 133 through 135
Section 11.66.120 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Sex trafficking in the second degree(a) A person commits the crime of sex trafficking in the second degree if the person (1) manages, supervises, controls, or owns, either alone or in association with others, a prostitution enterprise other than a place of prostitution;(2) procures or solicits a patron for a prostitute; (3) offers, sells, advertises, promotes, or facilitates travel that includes a commercial sexual act as enticement for the travel; or(4) under circumstances not proscribed under AS 11.66.110, induces or causes another person to engage in a commercial sexual act .(b) Sex trafficking in the second degree is a class B felony.(c) For purposes of this section, inducing or causing another person to engage in a commercial sexual act includes the following: (1) exposing or threatening to expose confidential information or a secret, whether true or false, that would subject a person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule;(2) destroying, concealing, or threatening to destroy or conceal an actual or purported passport or immigration document or another actual or purported identification document of any person;(3) threatening to report a person to a government agency for the purpose of arrest or deportation;(4) threatening to collect a debt;(5) instilling in a person a fear that lodging, food, clothing, or medication will be withheld from any person;(6) providing a controlled substance to or withholding a controlled substance from the other person; or(7) engaging in deception.Amended by SLA 2024, ch. 11,sec. 17, eff. 1/1/2025, app. to offenses committed on or after 1/1/2025.Amended by SLA 2024, ch. 11,sec. 16, eff. 1/1/2025, app. to offenses committed on or after 1/1/2025.Amended by SLA 2012SP3, ch. 1,sec. 11, eff. 7/1/2012.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.