Aren’t there more important issues for the voters of Los Angeles to consider? You wanna be safe? How about not gettting involved in the porn industry? There are other forms of employment.
The Huffington Post
If a health advocacy group gets enough petition signatures, Los Angeles residents could be asked to vote on whether porn producers must require performers to use condoms on shoots as a condition of getting a filming permit.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein announced Tuesday that his group needs 41,138 valid city voter signatures in the next four months to get the issue on the June 2012 ballot.
"As a citizen of Los Angeles, I have a responsibility in my own hometown to make sure we limit the spread of disease, but also to ensure the safety of performers in this industry," said Weinstein, who says his group has hired a firm to gather the signatures.
The proposed ordinance would apply to commercial filming of adult films, and would call on the city to charge adult film producers a "fee sufficient to pay for periodic inspections" for enforcement.
In an interview Tuesday, city AIDS Coordinator Stephen David Simon said while he values AHF's advocacy work and their massive billboard campaign encouraging HIV testing, this latest campaign won't work for LA.
For starters, by going through the city permit process, condom use enforcement would not fall to county health inspectors, but rather Los Angeles police officers would need to patrol porn shoots to ensure compliance, said Simon.
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