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these recommendaHons may be needed in any given community. Each communttv <br />rcL'vSd%Tmtl'rrng"’"" ^ <br />1. City and county attorneys ’ offlcas In the Twin Cities metropolitan <br />area should designate a prosecutor to pursue obscenity prosecutions <br />and support that prosecutor with specialized training. <br />2. The Legislature should consider funding a pilot program to ^ <br />demonstrate the efficacy of obscenity prosecution and should <br />encourage the pooling of resources between urban and suburban <br />prosecutor offices by making such cooperation a condition for recelvino <br />any such grant funds. ",... <br />••V 4 <br />3. The Attorney General should provide Informational resources fbi^ <br />city and county attorneys who prosecute obscenity crimes. <br />• <br />5: <br />- .V- <br />4. Obscenity prosecutions should begin with cases Involving those <br />matertala which most flagrantly offend community standards. > <br />5. The Legislature should amend the present forfeiture statute to <br />Include as grounds for forfeiture all felonies and gross misdemeanors <br />pertaining to solicitation, Inducement, promotion or receiving profit from <br />prostitution and operation of a **dlsor^erty house." <br />8. The Legislature should consider the potential for a RiCO-llke <br />statute with an obscenity predicate. <br />7. Prosecutors should use the public nuisance statute to enjoin <br />operations of sexually oriented businesses which repeatedly violate <br />laws pertaining to prostitution, gambling or operating a disorderly <br />house. ’ <br />• . - *?•. • • •