Quote Originally Posted by SebSloPro View Post
When the gov't comes in to investigate you, they are looking for 3 very simple documents:

Model ID / Drivers License - Cannot be altered, expired, or fake in any way
A Model Release consenting to be photographed
A 2257 Compliance Form which Nick Baer posted earlier
If this is your experience, it's very disturbing, because 2257 makes absolutely no references whatsoever to model releases, nor to a "2257 compliance form" although the information requested on the form is part of 2257 records that every producer is required to maintain. But there's no requirement as far as I know that models sign an affidavit of age, or that a model sign a copy of their ID.

Our attorney has advised us that releases should be stored elsewhere, in a physically different office from 2257 docs, and if requested by investigating authorities, we should say "Releases are not, from our understanding, part of 2257 records, and they are not stored here and not available for review."

If the FBI is, in fact, requiring documents that are not part of 2257, they would be required to have a search warrant in order to get them. (This notwithstanding the argument that many have made (and so far untested) that *any* 2257 investigation is, in fact, a violation of the 4th Amendment.)