In 1997 PCAP helped over 30 communities throughout the state of Pennsylvania pass zoning and/or licensing ordinances to control sexually oriented businesses. In 1996 PCAP helped to facilitate the passage of a statewide "Open Booth Bill" which forces adult bookstores to remove the doors to their video preview booths. Illegal public sexual acts regularly took place in these booths. PCAP also helped pass a statewide ban of nude dancing in bottle clubs. In 1996 PCAP assisted township officials and citizens in three separate legal actions against sexually oriented businesses. As a result of our assistance, one nude dancing club has shut down permanently, and another is on the legal "ropes". A prominent adult bookstore was forced to settle a lawsuit which forced the doors off their video preview booths. In 1995 PCAP led citizen efforts to oppose the opening of an adult bookstore in Cranberry Township. Weekly picketing conunenced within three days of its opening in August 1995. In February, 1996 the bookstore was closed permanently. PCAP assisted the Municipality of Monroeville in the legal defense of its 1994 Zoning Ordinance (which we helped to pass) when the Monroeville News Adult Bookstore filed suit in Federal Court in August 1995. Our Legal Advisor, George Faines, Esq., prepared the briefs which led to a settlement in the Municipality's favor. From 1993 to the present, PCAP has facilitated the passage of 18 zoning ordinances to control sexually oriented businesses in Allegheny County alone. Led the battle nationwide in 1988 which passed state and federal legislation mandating "access codes" to control the exploitation of children by dial-a-porn. Helped pass legislation in 1989 which made the distribution and mere possession of child pornography illegal in PA. In 1987 PCAP prevented the invasion of "pink news boxes" which distribute free sexually explicit literature from standard newspaper machines. These news boxes plague other major cities but not Pittsburgh. PCAP helped to found, in 1987, and continues to lead a statewide coalition of citizens and organizations called Pennsylvanian's Versus Pornography. HISTORY The Pittsburgh Coalition Against Pornography traces its roots to an ad-hoc citizens group formed in 1979. These citizens were moved to action by a proposed zoning variance in Mt. Lebanon PA which would have allowed the opening of a pornography warehouse by a Mr. Reuben Sturman -- a man law enforcement experts once called "The King of Pornography." Recently, he was convicted of tax evasion involving millions of dollars, pled guilty to multiple charges of obscenity distribution in Las Vegas, and indicted for extortion in a botched bombing of a rival adult bookstore in Chicago.     Our founders defeated him.     Thus began our basic mission to provide education and services to empower communities and citizens to oppose hard-core pornography on their own.     Since 1988 the Pittsburgh Coalition Against Pornography (PCAP) has been a freestanding 501-3C organization, incorporated as a non-profit according to the laws of Pennsylvania and the United States of America. The affairs of the organization are governed by a Board of Directors and a full-time Executive Director. A prestigious advisory board lends support, advice and leadership networking. Our mailing list of supporters totals almost 12,000 individuals and families.