The Latest: Board rejects condom requirement for porn films

Heeding the pleas of scores of actors, directors and producers, California officials in charge of workplace safety have rejected a proposal to require that porn actors cover up with condoms.

Scores of porn actors, writers, directors and producers are imploring state officials not to make them use condoms in films, saying it will criminalize and perhaps even destroy their multibillion-dollar industry.

The agency's board was scheduled to vote at the hearing's conclusion on new safety standards for the porn industry that would require actors filming sex scenes to use condoms.