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successful. programs of obscenity prosecution.6/ The Working Group encourages <br />prosecutors to take advantage of increasing training opportunities and other assistance <br />for obscenity prosecutions and to reassess the desirability of increased enforcement <br />The Working Group is pleased to note that county attorneys and law enforcement <br />groups in Minnesota have recently held forums and seminars on obscenity law <br />enforcement and prosecution. The U.S. Justice Department ’s National Obscenity <br />Enforcement Unit offers assistance to local prosecutors, including sample pleadings, <br />indictments, search warrants, motions, responses and trial memcranda.7/ <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />1. City and county attomeya ’ offices In the TV/In Cities metropolitan I,! <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 />prosecuting offices by making such cooperation a condition of receiving <br />any such grant funds.• • <br />§/ Memorandum to Jim Bellus, executive assistant to St Paul Mayor George Latimer <br />( After more than 10 years of levying he^ fines and making arrests. Atlanta has <br />won national renown as *the city that deaned up pornography.^). <br />7/ TTie ^dress of the National Obscenity Enforcement Unit is U.S. Justice <br />Departnient, 10th & Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Room 2216, Washington. D.C. 20530. <br />teleph^e number Is 202<€33*S780. Assistance is also available from Citizens for <br />Decency ttaugh L^. Inc., 2845 E'Camelback Rd., Suite 740, Phoenix, AZ 85018. <br />It IS me publisher of • The Preparation and Trial of an Obscenity Case: A Guide for <br />me Prosecuting Attorney." Its telephone number is 602-381-1322. The Nationai <br />Obscenity Law Center, another private organization, is located at 475 Riverside <br />Drive, Suite 236, New York, N.Y. 10115. It publishes an Obscenitv Law Bulletin and <br />Handbook on the Prosecution of Obscenity Cases.''” Its telephcne number is 212-870-3216. <br />•24*