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3 changes she can live with She feels the Ordinance is a very important first step in the right direction and hopes it can be rewritten within a year in a more positive vein. EQUI1---Zina business women, spoke in support of the Ordinance but questioned how the requirement of fingerprinting and mug shots would reduce prostitution. Sheriff Pendergrass indicated that fingerprints and mug shots clearly identify a person. They will be used to run a background check, if necessary, on the person. HarshalLeEi_vck part-time practitioner of massage therapy and counseling in Carrboro, spoke in support of the County efforts in making a distinction between sexual services which calls itself massage and legitimate massage. She questioned why the County does not make that distinction completely. Why have the criminal type procedures for those who are practicing massage therapy when it is understood they are practicing a profession rather than selling sexual services. She asked the Board to be complete about the distinction being made. Vice-President of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association and an employee of the Body and Soul Clinic in Chapel Hill, thanked the County for the compromised document. He found the Ordinance as a whole acceptable. He hopes that the Ordinance is changed in the future as the situation changes. KisargilAniggi movement educator and a licemedmember of the American Messsage and Therapy Association, expressed opposition to the fingerprints and mug shots. She asked Sheriff Pendergrass wholoald file the complaint and if the Sherriff could require fingerprints and mug shots only from those employees who work in places fronwhich the Sheriff had received complaints. Sheriff Pendergrass indicated that complaints could come from many sources, i.e., an officer, or a dissatisfied customer. Anumber of things could precipitate a complaint. Geoffrey Gledhill indicated the problem with setting requirements for a select group is that all people must be treated in the same way until a • criminal activity has occurred. He noted that fingerprints give the Sheriff access to the FBI finger- printing system. Part of the Ordinance requires that the person not operate or be part of an illegal activity in the past. The only way the Sheriff can run a check is through fingerprinting. Commissioner Walker noted that the Ordinance states that no one can be licensed who has a previous record and expressed concern for the person who may have a record and who wants to become legitimate. Teresa Leonarz questioned the number of massage parlors in Wake and Durham County. Sheriff Pendergrass indicated they do not have any massage parlors because of the Ordinances that each county have. Leonarz questioned if legally a distinction could be made between massage parlors and therapeutic clinics. She understands that until someone does something wrong that legally a distinction cannot be drawn between the two. She suggested that the Sheriff arrest those people who are doing something wrong and if the Sheriff does not have the proof, then leave well enough alone. She feels the Massage Ordinance is not necessary and there are other ways to control the massage parlors. She expressed a concern for the requirement in the Ordinance of no previous police record which actually prohibits a person from trying to go straight. She feels the Ordinance is harmful and will not solve problems that can be dealt with in other ways. She feels the fingerprints and mug shots are not acceptable to the massage community. Sharon_ Davis, Codirector of the Body and Soul Wholistic Therapeutic Clinic, expressed appreciation for the compromises made in the Ordinance and feels progress has been made in informing the people of massage as a