Zontians host spring workshop

[April 20, 2012]  The Zonta Club of Lincoln recently hosted the spring workshop of Zonta International District 6, Area 3. The meeting was on March 31 in the Alumni Room at the Lincoln College Student Center. There were 38 attendees from Springfield, Alton-Wood River, Mascoutah and Lincoln.

The keynote speaker, Lynne Johnson from the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, spoke on the End Demand Illinois campaign, which is a multiyear effort to transform Illinois' prostitution and trafficking laws to reflect the philosophy that prostituted and sex-trafficked individuals should not be further penalized, and should be offered social services in lieu of arrest, detention and incarceration; whereas resources and tools should be increased for law enforcement to prosecute traffickers, pimps and profiteers, while deterring men from buying sex.

[Text from file received from Zonta Club of Lincoln]