Porn Actress Says State Intruded on Privacy
By ELIZABETH BANICKI
From http://www.courthousenews.com
ALAMEDA, Calif. (CN) – A porn film actress whose positive HIV test made news in June claims state health officials violated her rights by demanding her medical records. Filing her complaint under the name "Patient Zero," the woman sued California OSHA and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.
Zero claims that after she tested positive for HIV, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health subpoenaed her health care provider for her records and personal information, in violation of her right to privacy.
She says that in June the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), which provides health care to sex workers, told her she had preliminarily tested positive for HIV. She says the Foundation quarantined her and everyone known to have had sexual contact with her, and reported her case to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Cal/OSHA then conducted a surprise inspection of AIM and demanded the medical records of HIV patients, including Patient Zero, but AIM staff refused, she says.
After the inspection, she says, her attorney learned that Cal/OSHA was meeting with the medical facility’s staff to try to get the records of patients with HIV.
She says her attorney wrote a letter asking that OSHA respect the actress’s privacy when conducting the interviews. OSHA did not respond, though it confirmed receipt of the letter.
The actress says some of the news reports in June contained her true name and other identifying information. She demands damages for civil rights and constitutional violations, and violations of the health and safety code.
She is represented by Lori Rifkin and Elizabeth Gill with the American Civil Liberties Union.
This is now a cluster fuck.
Is it my imagination, or did an actual text of the lawsuit just disappear off this site?
Harvery, cluster fuck is the understatement of the century.
The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated. -The Porn Industry (tip o’ the hat to Mark Twain)
I say so, even if the lawsuit wins, porn will survive but changed,In the long term people will be used to condoms.
hey harvey how’s things in gotham city did you get some plastic surgery yet? lol. nah,seriously though i agree that people will get use to the condoms. ’cause when a mans got to jack a mans got to jack!
I have chosen to keep my two different faces for now pornfan. The good one and the bad one.
Didn’t legislation pass in California making reporting of names of those who test HIV positive to the health department mandatory?
JUST FUCKING DROP NAMES ALREADY. Seriously, do these people expect anonymity forever?
One obscure, flip-flopping middle age whore who took the entire adult industry to the edge of the cliff is now trying to screw it deeper and further with a lawsuit that has more holes in it than Seth Dick-ins’ underwear. She’ll more likely be thrown out of the court, but the fact that she can go this far in this county, speaks in volumes. This is a clear indication of how dangerously stupid, narrow minded and politically correct this nation has became.
Probably the next time the cops catch a theif, he’s gonna find some dumb smart ass lawyer to take his case and sue LAPD for defamation of character and emotional suffering.
I think is better to start leaking names.
Do we have to watch what we say as comments so we don’t get Cindi arrested? Could we get in trouble for saying a name or a description of a maybe HIV person? What happened to freedom of speech?
Don’t worry, Biatch, nobody’s gonna get arrested over nothin’; just a loser whore trying to have it her way and take one last desperate shot at screwing people. But like I said earlier, the fact that she can be allowed to go this far, shows how fucked up this country has became. Only in America, baby.