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Please update your browser. A list of the most popular browsers can be found below. The Dreamgirls exotic dancers have been in the headlines in the state for over a month, since a cowboy-hat-wearing civil engineer named David Van Vleet filed a public records request to see the business licenses of the women who work there.
The records contain their legal names , among other details such as their dates of birth, stage names and physical descriptions. Van Vleet, a Christian, looked into television cameras and told reporters he simply wanted their names to pray for them. But their safety was exactly what concerned exotic dancers across Washington as the news spread. For Tracy, a dancer in Seattle, just north of Tacoma, who asked that her real name be withheld, the incident immediately reminded her of the licensing information she had to file with the local police department to legally dance at the club.
Washington serial killers Gary Ridgway and Robert Yates famously used the thick, lush state forests of Pierce County as dumping grounds for the bodies of sex workers from the s to s. The case will be revisited in mid-December.
A lot of them have straight jobs. Aside from privacy concerns, the Pierce County case opens up First Amendment and open records debates and questions of whether dancers should be considered independent contractors or employees. And the big question: Why do they need licenses at all? In most Washington cities, licenses are required to be an adult entertainer to ensure they are 18 or older and legal residents.
