Police officers in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County have been charging sex workers with possessing “instruments of a crime” if found with condoms in their possession, a first-degree misdemeanor charge that allows authorities to take suspects into custody and immediately process and fingerprint them under the auspices of halting human trafficking even if it discourages safe sex practices, according to a story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review earlier this month….

https://www.advocate.com/hiv/2018/6/18/condoms-are-instruments-crime-pittsburgh-prostitution-cases