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8-15-2007
 

Justice Department Ignores Citizen Obscenity Complaints

 

More than 67,000 obscenity complaints have been filed with the U.S. Department of Justice through a special Web site, but, to date, there have been no prosecutions based on that data.

Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, said his group set up ObscenityCrimes.org so people could alert the Justice Department to pornographic spam e-mail and Web sites that cross the line.

"From our perspective there is simply no excuse for not doing more cases," he told Family News in Focus.

Daniel Weiss, senior analyst for media and sexuality at Focus on the Family Action, said America is being shortchanged.

"When you have 67,000 complaints being ignored, the Justice Department is really under-serving the American public."


 



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