City Attorney sues longtime SF brothel in latest effort to shutter scofflaw business
For more than six years, city officials have tried and failed to permanently shut down what they have called a scofflaw madames brothel at the edge of Chinatown, believed to be one of many fronting as massage parlors in San Francisco.
Now, a new tactic is being used in the hope that Queens Health Center and its ilk stay closed for good, the San Francisco Examiner has learned.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking civil action, asking for a temporary injunction against the alleged brothel, its owner and the owner of the building as one of the latest efforts to shut down an operation that health officials and police have failed to close in the past.
Massage parlors operating as fronts for prostitution are a blight on our neighborhoods and put women and the community at risk, Herrera said.
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