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<br /> I e./sa . <br /> I . I <br /> these recommendations may be needed in any given community. Each community . <br /> i must decide for itself the nature of the problems it faces and the proposed solutions . . <br /> . which would be most fitting. <br /> I 1. City and county attorneys' offices in the Twin Cities metropolitan . <br /> area should designate a prosecutor to pursue obscenity prosecutions I <br /> and support that prosecutor with specialized training. <br /> I . <br /> 2. The Legislature should consider funding a pilot program to I <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 /> 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 e. <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 from <br /> prostitution and operation of a "disorderly house." <br /> The Legislature should consider the potential for a RiCO-like I <br /> 6. <br /> statute with an obscenity predicate. . <br /> 7. Prosecutors should use the public nuisance statute to enjoin I <br /> operations of sexually oriented businesses which repeatedly violate <br /> laws pertaining to prostltutlon, gambling or operating a disorderly . <br /> house. <br /> I <br /> -4- -. <br /> I <br /> ----- <br />