Some activists in Washington, D.C. have been having a sense of dejá vù lately. Several years ago, communities fought a proposal to create “Prostitution Free Zones” (PFZs) – areas declared by the police chief where officers could order people to move along and/or arrest them if the officers believed the individuals were “congregating for the purposes of prostitution.” Despite a robust organizing effort that brought together groups in new ways, the law was passed, and legitimized long-standing police tactics of arresting people for looking a certain way or being in a certain area in the name of enforcing prostitution laws.At the end of 2011, a member of the D.C. Council proposed a bill to make the PFZs – originally temporary – permanent.