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KingCast has one question on the Fourth of July: What happened to Tattoo/HIV physician consent "3701-9-04 General safety and sanitation standards?"

By Christopher King

Every now and then I take a look to see what's still going on in the tattoo world as I was lead counsel on a rather ridiculous case in which the State refused to regulate tattooing and made our client, 8 Ball Tattoo, into the Bad Guy. The thing is, we had asked for physician consent for people who have HIV/AIDS in Columbus and they dogged us out, blew us off -- but the STATE eventually passed the regulation after many people testified on the floor, including Yours Truly. It's in here.

But now, according to the Cleveland Scene (now Cleveland's only Indie paper) that regulation appears missing in action. Read all about that in paragraph 3 of yesterday's post addressing the plight of John Napier and Body Revolution. The art is courtesy of Durb Morrisson, the fellow who was going to provide a tattoo for the complaining party when our client declined for First Amendment reasons that were intentionally ignored by my former client, Ohio Civil Rights Commission Hearing Officer Frank Martens. It's all in the transcript, oh, yah.

Here is Durb Morrisson's website. He runs Hell City Tattoo Convention and he's badass.

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on July 04, 2008 (boomark / email).