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1 <br /> 1 these recommendations mayneeded be needed in any given community. Each community <br /> must decide for itself the nature of the problems it faces and the proposed solutions <br /> which would be most fitting. <br /> 1. City and county attorneys' offices 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 receiving <br /> anysuch grant funds. <br /> 1. <br /> .J <br /> 3. The Attorney General should provide informational resources for <br /> city and county attorneys who prosecute obscenity crimes. <br /> 1 4. Obscenity prosecutions should begin with cases involving those - • <br /> materials Which most flagrantly offend community standards. - <br /> 5. The Legislature should ould amend the present forfeiture statute to <br /> include as grounds for forfeiture all felonies and gross misdemeanors <br /> pertaining to solicitation, inducement, promotion or receivingprofit from <br /> prostitution and operation of a "disorderly house." <br /> 6, The Legislature shouldconsider -the potential for a RICO-like <br /> statute with an obscenity predicate. <br /> 7. Prosecutors should use the public nuisance statute to enjoin <br /> j . operations of sexually oriented businesses which repeatedly violate <br /> laws pertaining to prostitution, gambling or operating a disorderly <br /> S <br /> house. <br /> 4111 <br /> -4.. <br /> I <br />