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按摩新规利弊如何？不同的人有不同的态度！
（ABC10）New ordinance in Sacramento unfairly restricts massage spas, says community members
社区成员说，萨克拉门托的新法令不公地限制了按摩行业
Adequate outdoor lighting and visibility into lobbies would be required and no one would be permitted to sleep at massage spas overnight.
要求在户外也能看清室内的动态，要求大堂的充足的光线，而且不允许任何人在按摩中心过夜。
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento City Council passed a new ordinance Tuesday which will require all massage spas across the city to get a business permit to operate and follow a new list of rules or face penalties.
加州萨克拉门托市议会周二通过了一项新法令，要求全市所有的按摩场所必须获得经营许可证，并遵守一系列新的规定，否则将面临处罚。
The ordinance would require any massage spa to make sure they have things like adequate outdoor lighting, they need visibility into lobbies, meaning no more black bars on windows or curtains and no one would be allowed to sleep overnight at these businesses.
该法令要求任何一家按摩spa都要确保有足够的户外照明，他们需要能够看到大堂，这意味着不再有窗户或窗帘上的黑条，任何人都不允许在这些企业过夜。
But it’s an ordinance some say, will do more harm than good.
但有人说，这条法令弊大于利。
“It was almost as if the workers had no voice so why even talk to them," said Kristen DiAngelo, the Executive Director of the Sex Workers Outreach Project in Sacramento.
“就好像这些工作者没有声音，为什么还要跟他们说话呢，”萨克拉门托性工作者外展项目(sexual workers Outreach Project)的执行主任克里斯汀·迪安杰洛(Kristen DiAngelo)说。
DiAngelo is a former sex worker who is now an advocate for the civil and human rights of sex workers and their communities.
DiAngelo曾是一名性工作者，现在是性工作者及其社区的公民和人权的倡导者。
"When I was younger, I slept in the parlors, why?" she said. "Because I didn’t have a lot of money, I was trying to save money to get myself a place, they allowed me to sleep there and I was so blessed that they did."
“我小的时候，睡在客厅里，为什么?”她说。“因为我没有很多钱，我试着攒钱给自己找个地方住，他们允许我在那里睡觉，我很幸运，他们这样做了。”
On the heels of the Atlanta attacks on massage spas, she worries this ordinance is actually further targeting the Asian American Pacific Islander community.
在亚特兰大针对按摩浴场的袭击之后，她担心这一法令实际上会进一步针对亚裔美国太平洋岛民社区。
"So they’re saying, well if we could see in, we could see what’s going on and they don’t want people peering in the windows, they want to be able to work, they’re targeted as it is, like let’s just give even predators a better view into what’s going on so they could watch the people," she said.
“我们既然把窗户关上，把灯调暗，就是为了不让外面的人看见里面发生了什么，为什么一定要让你们看里面发生了什么呢。”她说。
The new ordinance passed by city council Tuesday night has been years in the making. In 2018, ABC10 reported Sacramento Police did 47 investigations at massage businesses resulting in 37 arrests.
周二晚上市议会通过的新法令已经酝酿多年。2018年，ABC10报道称，萨克拉门托警方对按摩企业进行了47次调查，逮捕了37人。
"Bars on windows, no lighting, people looking like they live in the area there, those clearly are not massage therapy establishments and are victimizing people here in our city, an example of modern-day slavery," said Eric Guerra, a Sacramento City Councilman who introduced this ordinance.
提出这项法令的萨克拉门托市议员埃里克格拉(Eric Guerra)说，“窗户上有栅栏，没有照明，人们看起来像是住在那个地区，这些明显不是按摩治疗机构，而是在侵害我们城市的居民，是现代奴隶制的一个例子。”
Guerra says, after the city of San Jose adopted a similar ordinance, they found that the majority of their more than 300 massage spas were considered ‘illicit.’
Guerra说，圣何塞市颁布了类似的法令后，他们发现该市300多家按摩浴场中的大多数都被认为是“非法的”。
The new ordinance gets code enforcement involved much sooner, before the police.
新法令让执法部门比警察更早地参与到执法中来。
"Code enforcement would partner with all of the different agencies including service providers and they would use their tool as code enforcement officers to be able to enter the business much faster because they would be using the business license that every establishment would have to participate in," Guerra said.
“Code执行将与所有不同的机构合作，包括服务提供商，他们将使用他们的工具作为Code执行官员，以便能够更快地进入业务，因为他们将使用每个机构都必须参与的商业许可证，”Guerra说。
The ordinance has received support from local organizations such as My , which helps victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
该条例得到了本地组织的支持，例如帮助家庭暴力、性侵犯和人口贩卖受害者的“My Sister's House”。
“The reason why we like this ordinance, is because we hope it will begin to help prevent the problem of having what we believe are some human trafficked victims behind some of the more sketchy-looking massage parlors," said Nilda Valmores, Executive Director of My Sister's House.
“My Sister's House”的执行董事尼尔达·瓦尔莫尔斯说:“我们之所以支持这个法令，是因为我们希望它会帮助一些被贩卖的受害者，她们通常会被藏在一些老旧粗糙的按摩院里。
Valmores says that behind some of those closed doors are trafficked Asian women, many of whom, don’t speak English.
瓦尔莫尔斯说，在一些被关起来的门后面是被贩卖的亚洲妇女，其中很多人不会说英语。
“Because we believe the women that are working there may not feel that they have options to do other work, that they are forced to do that work, that they can’t leave freely,” she explained.
她说:“因为我们认为，在那里工作的妇女可能觉得她们没有选择其他工作的权利，她们是被迫的，她们不能自由离开。”
If a business is found to engage in sexual acts or human trafficking, it will be shut down and unable to re-open for five years. The ordinance says that no other massage spa can take its place in that location for a five-year period either.
如果被发现从事性行为或贩卖人口，该企业将被关闭，5年内不得重新开业。该法令还规定，该地区5年内也不能有SPA取代它的位置。
Council decided against putting dress code restrictions on workers at these massage spas, but city attorneys are still looking into if the council can mandate their hours of operation and the number of people allowed in each massage spa.
市议会决定不对这些按摩中心的工作人员实施着装限制，但市律师仍在调查委员会是否可以强制规定这些按摩中心的营业时间和允许进入每个按摩中心的人数。
ABC10 is using the word 'spa' over 'parlor' when referencing these businesses because the word 'parlor' is a derogatory and somewhat harmful term for legitimate businesses. After the Atlanta shootings, newsrooms across the country received guidance from the Asian American Journalists Association that the word 'spa' is a preferred, neutral term.
ABC10在提到这些企业时使用了“spa”而不是“parlor”，因为“parlor”这个词对合法企业是一种贬义和有害的术语。亚特兰大枪击事件发生后，美国各地的新闻编辑室得到了亚裔美国记者协会(Asian American Journalists Association)的指导，认为“spa”是一个首选的中性词汇。
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