A bill to repeal California's anti-loitering law divided sex workers, advocates. It's now up to Newsom

A controversial bill to repeal a provision of California law that prohibits loitering with the intent to sell sex is on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, nine months after it passed the Legislature and deeply divided Democrats, sex workers and trafficking survivors along the way.

would rescind the misdemeanor law against loitering in public for the purpose to engage in prostitution. Advocates for the measure argued that law enforcement uses California's loitering rules to disproportionately target Black, brown