Inside the FBI Inspections of Adult Movie Company Age-Verification Records
Inside the FBI Inspections of Adult Movie Company Age-Verification Records: A Dialogue with Special Agent Chuck Joyner
Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards, 15 UCLA Ent. L. Rev. 55 (2008)
But obscenity law, as it turns out, is not the only legal tool the federal government has at its disposal today to target adult movie companies. In 2006, for the first time in history and nearly two decades after the law went on the books, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began random inspections of the companies’ age-verification records that are required pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2257 and the related federal regulations, to prove that all performers engaging in sexually explicit conduct are at least eighteen years of age. It’s the same law - one known simply as 2257 in the adult entertainment industry - with which Joe Francis, founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” videos, failed to comply.