State AGs: Craigslist should drop adult services
State attorneys general nationwide are demanding that Craigslist remove its adult services section because they say the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads.
Several attorneys general, including Connecticut, Ohio and Missouri, announced Tuesday that they have sent a joint letter calling on the classified advertising website to get rid of its adult services category.
The attorneys general say Craigslist is not completely screening out ads that promote prostitution and child trafficking. The site creators pledged in 2008 to improve their policing efforts.
Other states joining that effort are Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Massachusetts' attorney general released a separate letter to Craigslist officials Tuesday also calling for removal of adult services.
The calls come shortly after the suicide of Philip Markoff, a 24-year-old former Boston University medical student who was awaiting trial on charges he killed a woman he met on Craigslist in April 2009.
