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What to know about California's fight over harsher penalties for soliciting sex from older teens

What to know about California's fight over harsher penalties for soliciting sex from older teens
A debate over whether to create harsher penalties for soliciting and buying sex from older teenagers exploded in the California Legislature this week

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