http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/us/california-today-condoms-adult-films.html 2016-10-04 14:55:22 California Today: Requiring the Use of Condoms in Adult Films Tuesday: A ballot fight over condoms in the adult film industry, tensions flare over police killings in Sacramento and Los Angeles, and new inductees to the California Hall of Fame. === Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? If you work on a construction site, you’re required to wear a helmet. Likewise, if you perform on an adult film set, shouldn’t you have to wear a condom? That’s the logic supporters hope will lead voters in November to approve Proposition 60, a statewide initiative that would require pornography producers to enforce condom use. “If these producers cared about our health and safety, this is a no-brainer,” said Derrick Burts, a proponent and former adult film worker who contracted H.I.V. Those in the industry, however, are vehemently opposed. They have been joined by a number of organizations, including five of California’s biggest newspapers and both major political parties, who have raised concerns that Proposition 60 is written in a way that could unleash a wave of costly litigation. Under the measure, any private party would be allowed to sue producers of pornography if the state’s workplace safety agency failed to act on a reported violation. If such a lawsuit prevailed, the plaintiffs could get a cut of the judgment. What’s more, opponents say, the litigation would force adult film performers, who often double as producers, to publicly disclose their real names and addresses. “That just sounds like a social nightmare and a cultural nightmare,” said Eric Paul Leue, executive director of the Adult film companies have said condoms hurt sales and argued that frequent testing for sexually transmitted diseases has worked to keep Some have threatened to relocate their lucrative businesses, based mostly in the San Fernando Valley, to other states over the condom issue. Mr. Leue said businesses that don’t flee could also simply opt to go underground. There, he added, performers would face even greater risk. See reporting in The New York Times on the other Nov. 8 ballot initiatives: And dig into analyses of all 17 statewide measures by the • The family of a black homeless man who was • Anger is rising in • Following in Chicago’s footsteps, Pasadena is mulling whether to • San Francisco’s famously curvy • A new report revealed the San Francisco Bay Area’s • Thousands of people gathered for the funeral of the first • The new downtown • Why is October California’s • • Colorful characters, seedy motels and cash — welcome to the world of the Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday announced eight new inductees into the This year’s class includes one of baseball’s great hitters, the Padres’ Tony Gwynn, whose Mr. Gwynn will be honored during a ceremony on Nov. 30 in Sacramento along with the rest of the inductees: the actors Harrison Ford and George Takei, the novelist Isabel Allende, the artist Corita Kent, former Defense Secretary William J. Perry, the Tower Records founder Russ Solomon, and the journalist and former first lady of California Maria Shriver. “These individuals exemplify the unique and boundless creativity of California,” Mr. Brown said in a statement. Each of the honorees has a life story that has in some way been influenced by California. Ms. Allende, for example, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and her novels are often set in California. Mr. Solomon began his record empire in Sacramento. And Mr. Takei was born in Los Angeles and was once held at an internment camp for Japanese Americans in The Hall of Fame, part of the California Museum in Sacramento, was established in 2006 by one of this year’s honorees, Ms. Shriver, who at the time was the wife of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Among the first inductees were a few of the state’s most towering figures: Ronald Reagan, Cesar Chavez, John Muir, Elizabeth Taylor and John Steinbeck. California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays. Tell us what you want to see: The California Today columnist, Mike McPhate, is a third-generation Californian — born outside Sacramento and raised in San Juan Capistrano. He lives in Davis. California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and attended U.C. Berkeley.