"The Erotic Service Providers Legal Education + Research Project" files a constitutional challenge
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Media Advisory for
Wednesday March 4, 2015 Noon
Contact Maxine Doogan 415-265-3302 Info@esplerp @esplerp
Stop Criminalizing Adult Consensual Private Sexual Exchange!
Sex Worker Groups Files in Federal Court to stop anti prostitution law
What: ESPLER filing complaint with the United States District Court challenging California’s current anti-prostitution law Penal Code 647(b)
Where: Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse 450 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102 on the Golden Gate Ave entrance side.
When: Wednesday March 4, 2015 Noon -12pm
Who: Sponsored by The Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education and Research Project (ESPLER), a not for profit community-based coalition advancing sexual privacy rights through legal advocacy, education, and research.
Copies of Brief to be provided
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I want to tell about special case that is going to be filed in federal court against California district attorneys and the California state attorney general for violating the constitutional rights of individuals who seek the right to be compensated for or to give compensation for private intimate contact. This conduct is currently criminalized as prostitution in California.
This case is being sponsored by the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education and Research Project, a non profit, We’re a diverse community based group of erotic service providers and community member who work towards empowerment by advancing sexual privacy rights. One way to do this is launch a legal impact case such as the one I’m going to tell you about. So far they have a top notch litigator who has experience arguing these types of constitutional cases before the US Supreme court. He is specialist so of course he’s quite expensive, but we think its well worth it.
Then there are the plaintiffs. The female plaintiffs represent the people who want to assert their right to be hired to provide intimate private contact which is currently criminalized under the anti prostitution laws. They are ordinary women who have children lives and hobbyies and lives outside of work just like every else. They just want to raise their families and live in peace with access to equal protection under the law, like everybody else.
Then there is the customer plaintiff, who has stepped forward to represent the right compensate for intimate private contact. He wants the right to hire comfort without being arrested for prostitution.
The case will also demand the right to associate and right to organize without fear.
The type of relief we are seeking will be accessible to other through out the united states to keep unjust criminal charges from being filed and to keep the police from arresting erotic service providers and instead force prosecutors to provide equal protection under the law.
This court case might take as little as a year to litigate or as long as several years. The money we are asking for now is most likely an installment. The hope is that with your help we will end negative social stigma and the resulting discrimination in housing, employment, education, child custody and access to financial institutions for compensated intimate private conduct in our life time. These are constitutional rights and human rights. They must be upheld NOW! Now is the time!
For those who keep saying that the justice systems mistreatment of sex workers isn’t right, its your chance to make a contribution and help us take this landmark step by making a tax deductible anonymous donation. Thank you for your time.