SEATTLE — Seattle has launched a pilot program that sends warning letters to the homes of suspected sex buyers along Aurora Avenue North, a new tactic aimed at reducing commercial sexual exploitation in an area where police estimate 500 to 1,000 people are sexually exploited each month.

The program, which began a week and a half ago, involves photographing license plates of vehicles suspected of engaging in illegal sexual exploitation activity and mailing deterrence letters to the registered owners. Three Seattle Police Department detectives trained in anti-trafficking work are carrying out the initiative.

The letters inform recipients: "This notifies you that a vehicle registered to your name was observed by detectives... on Aurora Avenue North engaged in suspected illegal sexual exploi

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