Ohio group pushes for obscenity law enforcement

CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Cincinnati-based group Citizens for Community Values was instrumental in helping more than a dozen other cities implement tighter zoning laws that dramatically reduced the number of porn shops and massage parlors within their city limits in the mid-1990s.

Now the group is heading up a campaign to encourage law enforcement officials to enforce — or at least threaten to enforce — obscenity laws against hotels that offer in-room, pay-per-view pornographic movies.

The group’s efforts appear to be paying off. President Phil Burress says the latest hotel to make the decision to drop the porn movies is the Cincinnati Marriott North in West Chester.

Burress says that this is the sixth hotel in the greater-Cincinnati area in the last seven months that has pulled hard-core pornography out of their hotels. He also said that he is hoping to take his campaign nationwide.