A ballot measure requiring porn companies in Los Angeles to use condoms during film shoots has pitted City Attorney Carmen Trutanich against several City Council members in a debate focused on actor safety and taxpayer funds.
Trutanich last week filed a lawsuit against backers of the measure, seeing it as unnecessary and a potential waste of city resources.
But the move surprised the council and angered several members who support providing workplace protections to adult performers.
City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Bill Rosendahl introduced a motion this week that attempts to quash the lawsuit.
"We shouldn't be suing to thwart the opinions of people of Los Angeles who signed this," Koretz said.
Already, there's a law on the books mandating condom use on film sets, although it is not vigorously enforced.
If the initiative is ultimately challenged by the porn industry and thrown out, the city will have wasted money and time on preparing the ballot initiative, Trutanich argues.
Calling the initiative a "needless and wasteful expenditure of public resources," the lawsuit asks the court to immediately relieve the city clerk from preparing the ballot measure.
Assistant City Attorney Valerie Flores said the city is likely to face a costly lawsuit from the pornography industry if the measure becomes law. She said the city attorney's office wanted to get legal clarification from the courts about whether the city had the authority to enforce the measure, but insisted the suit does not necessarily mean Trutanich opposes the substance of the proposal.
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