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.; ' . <br /> • <br /> `1 <br /> 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 memoranda.?/. <br /> 9 <br /> RECOMMENDATIONS <br />• 1 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 /> prosecuting offices by making such cooperation a condition of receiving <br /> any such grant funds. <br /> • <br /> • <br /> 6/ Memorandum to Jim Bellus, executive assistant to St. Paul Mayor George Latimer <br /> (prepared by St. Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development) (July 5, <br /> 1988); see also Waters, `The Squeeze on Sleaze," Newsweek, Feb. 1, 1988, at 45 <br /> ("After more than 10 years of levying heavy fines and making arrests, Atlanta has <br /> won national renown as 'the city that cleaned up pornography.'"). <br /> 7/ The Address of the National Obscenity Enforcement Unit is U.S. Justice <br /> Department, 10th & Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Room 2216, Washington, D.C. 20530. <br /> Its telephone number is 202-633-5780. Assistance is also available from Citizens for <br /> Decency through Law, Inc., 2845 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 740, Phoenix, AZ 85016. <br /> it is the publisher of "The Preparation and Trial of an Obscenity Case: A Guide for • <br /> the Prosecuting Attorney." Its telephone number is 602-381-1322. The National <br /> Obscenity Law Center, another private organization, is located at 475 Riverside <br /> Drive, Suite 236, New York, N.Y. 10115. It publishes an Obscenity Law Bulletin and <br /> the "Handbook on the Prosecution of Obscenity Cases." Its telepnone numoer is <br /> 212-870-3216. <br /> • S <br /> J -24 • <br /> - <br />