Jackson, Tennessee- Last Friday Jackson police filed a restraining order preventing a local nightclub from hosting an event that would have included a traveling pornography Web site company.
Police Chief Rick Staples said the restraining order was served to a lawyer for the nightclub Friday.
“We filed it based on the fact that the nightclub is not in the zoning area for adult entertainment,” he said.
Good Girls Gone Bad, a pornographic Web site company that travels across the country in a bus, was scheduled to hold an event at Big Kahuna, at 63 Heritage Square. A manager who answered the phone at the club declined comment.
According to the Web site’s banner, the company is a reality entertainment company that “searches around the world for the baddest, hottest young girls doing the craziest things imaginable.”
Jerry Pope, host and co-owner of the company, said he did not know about the restraining order until a Jackson Sun reporter told him about it late Friday night.
“I didn’t know that it was an issue,” Pope said in a phone interview Friday night from Nashville.
The company was at an event at a nightclub on South Eighth Street in Nashville on Friday night.
Metro Nashville Police Capt. Randy Hickerson said the department was not aware of the company being in Nashville.
“If it gets here and causes problems or is in violation of the law, it is something we will definitely follow up with at that time,” he said.
Pope said authorities had nothing to worry about and that the girls wear bikinis in the nightclubs. In some cities, the Web site is allowed to host wet T-shirt contests.
“We film those events, make DVDs and distribute them,” he said.
Pope is used to law enforcement officers checking the bus to make sure that no illegal activity is taking place.
“They’ve even stayed around and watched the show,” he said. “Afterwards, we shake hands and we’re both off on our merry way.”
