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<br /> ---- ---- <br /> ~ - <br /> I 8/sa I <br /> I these recommendations may be needed in any given community. Each community .1 <br /> must decide for itself the nature of the problems it faces and the proposed solutions ~ I <br /> i which would be most fitting. <br /> ; <br /> I 1. City and county attorneys' offices In the Twin Cities metropolitan I <br /> , area should designate a prosecutor to pursue obscenity prosecutions <br /> I <br /> and support that prosecutor with specialized trainIng. <br /> j . <br /> 2. The Legislature should consider funding a pilot program to I <br /> demonstrate the efficacy ot obscenity prosecution and should <br /> encourage the pooling ot resources between urban and suburban I <br /> prosecutor offices by making such cooperation a condition for receiving <br /> any such grant funds. I <br /> 3. The Attorney General should provide informational resources for <br /> city and county attorneys who prosecute obscenity crimes. I <br /> 4. . Obscenity prosecutions should begin with cases InvolvIng those -. <br /> materials whIch most flagrantly offend community standards. <br /> 5. The LegIslature should amend the present forfeiture statute to I <br /> Include as grounds for forfeiture all felonies and gross misdemeanors I <br /> pertaining to solicitation, Inducement, promotion or receiving profit trom . <br /> prostItution and operation of a "disorderly house." <br /> 6. The Legislature should consider the potential for a RICO-like . <br /> statute with an obscenity predIcate. I <br /> 7. Prosecutors should use the public nuisance statute to enjoin . <br /> operations ot sexually oriented businesses which repeatedly violate <br /> laws pertaining to prostitution, gambling or operating a disorderly I <br /> house. <br /> . <br /> -4. -I <br /> . <br />