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    Default Background checks and 2257s for guest performers

    Hey all, I did some searching...and I imagine it varies from site to site, but i was wondering what you guys know about background checks and guest performers. I'm not worried for myself. My camsite has my documentation associated with my account, i'll get a 1099, that'll show up in background checks....i get that whole side of it.

    My question is this: My husband would really like to be in a few videos, maybe on live cam, but maybe not...if i get his ID/age stuff to my cam site, as a guest performer.....will it show up in background checks for him in the future? Or is it only the 1099's that show up on background checks? He's hoping to go into education....college level, not little kids...but it would still prob be a problem for him to have adult industry stuff in his past. Is all that likely to be moot since his wife (me) is doing it? Is there a way to sell content where you take responsibility for verifying the 2257 of your own performers? I could keep a folder with his info, (and anyone else i make content with) in case it was ever contested, take the legal responsibility on myself...since its likely just this one person, who i'm married to, who i KNOW is over 18, lol.

    Just wondering the best way to look at this situation.

    Thanks!

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    Default Re: Background checks and 2257s for guest performers

    I get what youre saying.

    Youre the one being paid so youre the only one thats going to be issued the 1099. For cam/clips sites they do require all performers to upload IDs even though they only pay one person. You cant say well i'll take legal responsibility myself lol, they'll do it to cover themselves.

    The only way you'd be responsible for maintaining your own records is if you were selling content independently on your own site.

    If your husband is going to make content with you, or even if he doesnt and you want to keep his record clean, the best thing you could do (which may cost you) is to file your taxes as married file separately, so that if his future job opportunities require indepth background checks in which checking his tax returns is part of it seeing 1099s from cam sites issued to his wife wont come up.

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    Default Re: Background checks and 2257s for guest performers

    ^^^ yup agreed. When your husband eventually seeks his professional teacher's license, the state professional licensing agency will definitely perform a thorough background check which will almost certainly include the signing of an IRS disclosure form. If your husband's tax return is 'joint' with yours, all tax documents tied to that 'joint' tax return, including your 1099's from adult webcam hosts, are likely to be released. I really don't know how state professional licensing agencies would view a wife's involvement in the 'adult entertainment' business vis a vis potential 'unprofessional conduct' on the part of the husband.

    In regard to Section 2257 files maintained by producers of adult content, first point regarding webcam hosts is that EVERY person appearing on webcam needs a separate entry in the producer's Section 2257 file. This is a matter of strict US federal law, and is not 'negotiable'.

    Second point is that 'authorized persons' have the right to inspect the content of Section 2257 files ... but we really don't know exactly who those 'authorized persons' are, and we also really don't know where the content of the Section 2257 files they inspect might wind up. Put another way, is it possible that the FBI, or some other US gov't agency, already maintains a database of every person whose name and personal details is listed in a Section 2257 file ? - a database that may be searched as part of future in depth background checks by other gov't entities like state professional licensing agencies ? The answer today is 'probably not'. But there's no way to know if, a few years down the road when a college student finally graduates and seeks a professional license, the same answer will apply.

    Arguably, the way to view this situation is that any record of 'adult industry' work can create future negative complications in the 'straight job' world. The relative negative complications get worse for 'straight jobs' involving the public trust i.e. working with other people's bodies, other people's money, other people's children. Obviously the potential negative complications are much greater for a camgirl who plans to become a registered nurse, a CPA, or a teacher herself than for a camgirl wife whose husband plans to pursue a profession involving the public trust.
    Last edited by Melonie; 09-14-2012 at 06:09 PM.

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