San Juan Capistrano is adding further restrictions to massage parlors in an attempt to discourage untoward businesses from prostituting human trafficking victims at the establishments. City council unanimously advanced amendments to a massage parlor ordinance June 1 and adopted a resolution proclaiming the city’s commitment to fight human trafficking. “[Human trafficking] is a problem all throughout Southern California and Orange County has an especially notorious reputation for it,” Councilmember Howard Hart, who directed the ordinance, told The Epoch Times on June 8. Human trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar industry that involves using force, fraud, and coercion to obtain sex and labor, with many cases involving minors. Hart said the “illicit massage parlors” in San Juan Capistrano are “heavily involved in human trafficking.” “In total we have about 12 massage parlors, and not all of them are illicit. I would say more than half of them are illicit massage parlors,” Hart said. “Of those, you can almost assume that …