AHF Files Work Safety Complaint Against San Diego Boy Prods.

LOS ANGELES—AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has targeted gay porn producers San Diego Boy Productions in its latest work safety complaint. AHF's alleges that the studio violated Florida's "Sanitary Nuisance" statutes by shooting adult videos in the state without using condoms.   AHF initially filed its complaint in California, but had to refile in Florida in mid-August after Cal/OSHA determined that the sexual activities in the videos in question took place in Florida, and were shot by the Sunshine State-based D&E Productions.  "In its defense against our Cal/OSHA complaint, San Diego Boy Productions/Fantom Video said that the company responsible for producing the video material in question for it—D&E Productions—was based in Florida, not California, and that as a result, Cal/OSHA had no jurisdiction," said Michael Weinstein, president of AHF. "With that admission, AHF then filed a new Health and Safety Complaint under Florida's 'Sanitary Nuisance' statutes over the adult videos filmed in Florida without condoms—films that clearly demonstrate the unprotected exchange of bodily fluids." Despite there being no equivalent occupational safety and health division statewide in Florida like Cal/OSHA in California, the state and Miami-Dade County do have "sanitary nuisance" laws on the books.  Florida's broad sanitary nuisance statute is defined as "the commission of any act, by an individual, municipality, organization, or corporation, or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence, or permission of anything, by an individual, municipality, organization, or corporation, by which the health or life of an individual, or the health or lives of individuals, may be threatened or impaired, or by which or through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be caused." This is not the first time AHF has stuck its paws into filing complaints against adult production companies in Florida. In its press release, AHF cites similar sanitary nuisance complaints it filed in February 2010 based on its submission of 10 DVDs of adult films shot in Florida produced by four Florida-based production companies. According to AHF, The Florida Department of Health continues to investigate those complaints, and AHF has subsequently filed additional complaints, which it reports are still pending.  AHF has scheduled a press teleconference for tomorrow morning to announce its filing of this work safety complaint. An email was sent to San Diego Boy Productions seeking comment. It was unreturned at post time.