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2020-03-02 -Land of the Free
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LA's adult performers strike back against state registry bill
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 [ARCAMAX] Adult film actress Riley Reyes was preparing for a "particularly physical" scene last week when she received word of a proposed state measure that would impose strict new rules on her industry."I was completely shocked," said Reyes, who is among "hundreds of thousands" of performers the bill initially sought to have fingerprinted, background-checked and mandated into education programs under a new licensing scheme. "It was weird to have to go to work and act sexy and normal after finding out."
Reyes shoots hardcore sex scenes on the storied sets of the San Fernando Valley, long dubbed the "porn capital of the world." She also heads the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, one of a small number of organized labor and workers' rights groups that meet regularly with politicians on industry issues.
None of them knew about Assembly Bill 2389 until after it was introduced. The snub has renewed a bitter fight over who speaks for adult performers in a state where politicians have long sought to assert some control over the industry. After a decade of proposed porn czars and failed condom codes, strippers, adult film actors and webcam performers say Sacramento is looking for novel ways to police them.
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One industry lawyer called it a "scarlet letter statute."
"It is my goal that the training required by AB 2389 will result in a certification process similar to that of other industries," Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, a Democrat, wrote in a statement on Feb. 20, two days after she introduced the bill. "For example, the food service industry requires a food handlers training course, in which workers complete a training course and at the end take a quiz. Upon passing the quiz, they are then certified food handlers in this state."
On Thursday, Garcia introduced amendments to scrap fingerprinting requirements and scale back the business license mandate in favor of a certificate program.
But experts said such a scheme "misunderstands how the industry works."
"The industry simply isn't comparable to other jobs which require permitting," Heather Berg, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at Washington University, wrote in an email. "There is also a long history of hookers prostitutes sex workers
 ...the oldest profession was legal (though not always unregulated) for thousands and perhaps even millions of years. That never has made it soething most people want their daughters doing...
resisting mandated registration with the state."
Garcia said the bill was proposed by the International Entertainment Adult Union, an umbrella organization for industry guilds. But those guilds represent a small fraction of adult entertainers -- most of whom are nonunion -- and their leaders said it was drafted behind their backs by a "rogue officer." The officer, union secretary Amanda Gullesserian, told the Los Angeles Times she went to the politician alone.
"Who would draft a bill without talking with us?" said Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition, an industry trade group that works regularly with state officials. "No one had consulted us at all -- we spoke to the other major performer groups, and no one had any contact with the politicians who drafted this. Everyone was pretty outraged."
The backlash was sudden.
"This does not protect performers -- it basically treats us like criminals," said Alana Evans, president of the Adult Performers Actors Guild. "We're coming to the adult industry because we need to buy diapers, we need to feed our kids. ... They're going to use this to scare people away."
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