they will sue the San Fernando Valley clinic that tests adult movie performers for AIDS and alerts movie companies to actors with positive HIV tests.
Lead plaintiffs Diana Grandmason and Bess Garren said the practices of the Sherman Oaks-based Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation violate federal and state laws that oil painting protect the privacy of medical records.
The actresses and other porn performers are part of a move to require adult film producers to mandate the use of condoms when videotaping sex acts that result in the transmission of body fluids. The movement is being pushed by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Hollywood group that has been given the services of two lawyers working for free.oil painting oil painting
The nonprofit foundation has been pushing for mandatory use of condoms in adult films since an HIV outbreak in 2004 spread panic through the industry and briefly shut down production at several studios.
Last year, a woman who worked in the adult entertainment industry tested positive for HIV. Health workers at AIM, where she was a client, said the case was an isolated one and was significantly different from the HIV scare that jolted the industry in 2004.hublot big bang
To counter the campaign for condom use on movie sets, producers have set up an AIDS testing clinic to make sure their employees are not carrying HIV or suffering from AIDS or other venereal diseases.
No one at the producers' foundation's office in Sherman Oaks was available for comment Sunday. But producers have in the past argued that the large-but-below-ground porn industry headquartered in the San Fernando Valley will dissolve - with video production going to other states or overseas - if condoms are required in videos.hublot big bang hublot big bang
The central medical data clearinghouse is the subject of the lawsuit, which is expected to be filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, Grandmason said.
The data center "violates the privacy rights of performers in the adult film industry by allowing the producers of adult films online access to workers' health care information without the individual consents and releases required by federal and California law," she said in a statement issued Sunday. The suit also will assert that the industry's health foundation "jeopardizes the health and well- being of performers in the adult film industry by discouraging the use of condoms and other safer-sex practices known to prevent and dramatically reduce the spread" of sexually-transmitted diseases, according to Grandmason.
