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<br /> I <br /> 28/S"C::> . .1 <br /> successful programs of obscenity prosecution.~/ The Working Group encourages <br /> . <br /> prosecutors to take advantage of increasing training opportunities and other assistance <br /> - <br /> for obscenity prosecutions and to reassess the desirability of increased enforcement. I <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 I <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.Z/ I <br /> RECOMMENDATIONS . <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 /> The Legislature should consider funding a pilot program to . <br /> 2. <br /> demonstrate the etffcacy of obscenity prosecution and should -I <br /> encourage the pooling of resources between urban and suburban <br /> prosecuting offices by making such cooperation a condition of receiving I <br /> any such grant funds. <br /> I <br /> ~/ Memorandum to Jim Bellus, executive assistant to St. Paul Mayor George Latimer I <br /> (prepared by St. Paul De!?artment of Plannin~ and Economic Development) (July 5, <br /> 1988); see also Waters, 'The Squeeze on S eaze," Newsweek, Feb. 1, 1988, at 4S I <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 /> Z/ The Address of the National Obscenity Enforcement Unit is U.S. Justice I <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 Obscen' Law Bulletin and I <br /> the "Handbook on the Prosecution of Obscenity Cases. Is te ep one num er is <br /> 212-870-3216. -. <br /> -24- <br /> I <br />