L.A. County Board of Supervisors: Condom Ballot Measure a Go

LOS ANGELES—By a vote of 3-1, with one abstention, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted in favor of placing The Safer Sex in Adult Film Industry ballot initiative on the November ballot up for public vote. Voting in favor of placing the measure on the ballot were supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky, who represents much of the portion of the San Fernando Valley that contains the adult film industry, as well as Don Knabe and Michael Antonovich. Opposing the measure was Gloria Molina, with Mark Ridley-Thomas abstaining from the vote. There were several speakers who spoke for and against the measure at the meeting held this morning in downtown L.A. Speaking in support of the measure was Mark Roy McGrath, an advisor to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, sponsors of the initiative, as well as Adam Cohen of the UCLA Reproductive Health Interest Group and AHF's attorney Steven Kauffman. Speaking against the measure was Free Speech Coalition's Executive Director Diane Duke, FSC board chairman Jeffrey Douglas and First Amendment attorney Allan Gelbard. In particular, Kauffman's address to the board got Supervisor Molina to talk at length about her opinions about the initiative, which will be fleshed out in a subsequent piece on AVN.com this afternoon.