http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:19:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 communitydefensecounselhttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/courts-divide-over-the-constitutionality-of-sex-toy-bans/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/courts-divide-over-the-constitutionality-of-sex-toy-bans/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:55:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41921 Findlaw: "The Supreme Court of Alabama recently upheld a state obscenity law banning the sale or promotion of sex toys. In so holding, the Court agreed with one of the two federal appellate courts to consider the same question in recent cases. At issue in the Alabama case, 1568 Montgomery Highway, Inc. v. City of Hoover, is whether there is a constitutional right to sexual freedom – but that is an issue the U.S. Supreme Court may not yet be ready to tackle."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/courts-divide-over-the-constitutionality-of-sex-toy-bans/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/tn-family-group-opposes-playboy-cable-channel/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/tn-family-group-opposes-playboy-cable-channel/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:12:22 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41897 CitizenLink: "The Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACT) is arguing that Chattanooga's Electric Power Board (EPB) should pull the plug on the Playboy channel. The EPB is selling cable TV and Internet access and included the sexually themed channel in the lineup."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/tn-family-group-opposes-playboy-cable-channel/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/wa-county-tackles-bikini-barista-rules/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/wa-county-tackles-bikini-barista-rules/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:29:05 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41734 Everett Herald: "One proposal would clarify lewd-conduct offenses by employees who are visible to the public while clad in skimpy attire such as lingerie or pasties. The other would push the more blatantly adult businesses into special adult-entertainment zones. The laws would apply only in unincorporated Snohomish County."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/wa-county-tackles-bikini-barista-rules/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/pc-users-framed-by-virus-collecting-child-porn/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/pc-users-framed-by-virus-collecting-child-porn/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:59:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41782 Denver Post (AP): "Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/pc-users-framed-by-virus-collecting-child-porn/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/virtual-parentalism/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/virtual-parentalism/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42:31 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41791 Virtual Parentalism (September 30, 2009). Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2009-08. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1480701 "Parents, not laws, ultimately protect children both online and offline. If legislation places adults at legal risk because of the presence of children in virtual worlds, adults will exit those worlds, and children will be isolated into separate spaces. This will not improve safety for children. Instead, this Article suggests that Congress enact measures that encourage filtering technology and parental tools that will both protect children in virtual worlds, and protect free speech online."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/virtual-parentalism/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/protecting-children-in-virtual-worlds-without-undermining-their-economic-educational-and-social-benefits/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/protecting-children-in-virtual-worlds-without-undermining-their-economic-educational-and-social-benefits/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:41:09 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41785 Protecting Children in Virtual Worlds Without Undermining Their Economic, Educational, and Social Benefits Robert Bloomfield and Benjamin Duranske, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1175 (2009) "Advances in virtual world technology pose risks for the safety and welfare of children. Those advances also alter the interpretations of key terms in applicable laws. For example, in the Miller test for obscenity, virtual worlds constitute places, rather than 'works,' and may even constitute local communities from which standards are drawn. Additionally, technological advances promise to make virtual worlds places of such significant social benefit that regulators must take care to protect them, even as they protect children who engage with them."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/protecting-children-in-virtual-worlds-without-undermining-their-economic-educational-and-social-benefits/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/sex-play-in-virtual-worlds/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/sex-play-in-virtual-worlds/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:40:56 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41781 Sex play in virtual worlds Robin Fretwell Wilson, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1127 (2009) "This Article asks whether an adult who engages in virtual sex with a child may be subject to prosecution under existing laws prohibiting sexual exploitation of children and concludes that in many states the adult would be."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/09/sex-play-in-virtual-worlds/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/alexandria-throws-out-adult-store-regulations/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/alexandria-throws-out-adult-store-regulations/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:02:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41644 Washington Business Journal: "The board voted 5-1 not to initiate a proposed amendment to the city’s zoning regulations, according to deputy director of planning and zoning Barbara Ross. The measure would have required adult-oriented businesses to be more than 1,000 feet away from each other, and for such stores not to exist in Alexandria’s historic district."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/alexandria-throws-out-adult-store-regulations/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/group-looks-to-block-strip/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/group-looks-to-block-strip/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:48:47 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41616 WPXI: "A group called HDV wants to open a 'Larry Flint Hustler Strip Club' in the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, not far from the new Rivers Casino in the Manchester neighborhood of Pittsburgh."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/group-looks-to-block-strip/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/ohio-suburban-swingers-club-outrages-neighbors/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/ohio-suburban-swingers-club-outrages-neighbors/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:47:10 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41611 WLWT: "Take a ride down U.S. Highway 52 in Clermont County and you would hardly notice it's there; a place called Cobra Cincinnati -- an adults-only swingers club. Cobra Cincinnati is not the first swingers club in the Tri-State area, but it has become one of the most controversial because of its location -- quiet New Richmond."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/06/ohio-suburban-swingers-club-outrages-neighbors/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/porn-industry-wrestles-with-question-of-whether-condoms-should-be-required/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/porn-industry-wrestles-with-question-of-whether-condoms-should-be-required/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:14:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41564 ABC: "'Sometimes it'd be 10 women in an orgy scene -- nonstop,' he said, talking about his career at its busiest . . . 'I get that call,' he said, shaking his head. 'Everything stops. I had the virus.'"]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/porn-industry-wrestles-with-question-of-whether-condoms-should-be-required/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/new-albany-again-rebuffed-in-battle-against-adult-bookstore/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/new-albany-again-rebuffed-in-battle-against-adult-bookstore/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:39:06 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41538 Louisville Courier-Journal: "The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied the city’s request that the full court reconsider a September ruling by a three-judge panel blocking the city from closing New Albany DVD."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/new-albany-again-rebuffed-in-battle-against-adult-bookstore/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/ma-adult-district-brings-crowd-to-wrentham/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/ma-adult-district-brings-crowd-to-wrentham/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:59:29 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41481 The Sun Chronicle: "Residents, especially on Madison Street, continue to strongly oppose an adult entertainment district proposed off Route 1. Almost 50 people turned out to a public hearing before the planning board Wednesday night."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/ma-adult-district-brings-crowd-to-wrentham/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/or-tualatin-nude-dance-club-set-to-open-nov-18/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/or-tualatin-nude-dance-club-set-to-open-nov-18/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:59:09 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41479 Tigard Times: "The public discussion about the popular chain of 'adult entertainment clubs,' more commonly referred to as strip clubs, seems to have died down in recent months. But it was just a year ago that many in the city were immersed in a campaign to stop the club from setting up shop in the old Out of the Blues restaurant at 17939 S.W. McEwan Road."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/or-tualatin-nude-dance-club-set-to-open-nov-18/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/ri-aclu-criticizes-sexual-health-center-zoning-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/ri-aclu-criticizes-sexual-health-center-zoning-ruling/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:24 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41455 Providence Journal: "A zoning officer’s decision to deny the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health from locating in a Main Street building is drawing criticism from the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/05/ri-aclu-criticizes-sexual-health-center-zoning-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/04/how-san-francisco-went-from-prudish-to-porn-capital/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/04/how-san-francisco-went-from-prudish-to-porn-capital/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:27:14 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41371 San Francisco Weekly: "Yet, contrary to common lore," Josh Sides writes, "nothing in San Francisco's history determined it to become an internationally renowned bastion of sexual libertinism. Instead, sex radicals created it, despite fierce resistance from several generations of the city's residents."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/04/how-san-francisco-went-from-prudish-to-porn-capital/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/04/uk-advertising-standards-authority-says-pornography-isnt-pornographic/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/04/uk-advertising-standards-authority-says-pornography-isnt-pornographic/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:37:35 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41366 The Register: "British parents can be reassured that a newspaper picture of a man and woman having sex at the base of tree to advertise a film which "Contains strong real sex, bloody violence and self-mutilation" is not pornographic. The Advertising Standards Authority made the ruling after seven complainants turned to it in horror after seeing ads for the film Antichrist which appeared in the Guardian, The Times and the Independent."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/04/uk-advertising-standards-authority-says-pornography-isnt-pornographic/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/tn-fowler-objects-to-epb-cable-options-inclusion-of-pornography/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/tn-fowler-objects-to-epb-cable-options-inclusion-of-pornography/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:14:04 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41111 WDEF: "EPB says it's not getting any complaints about it's available television programming, but former State Senator David Fowler says it includes pornography . . . DAVID FOWLER: 'The city of Chattanooga and the Electric Power Board do not legally have to offer cable, I've confirmed that with attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund.'"]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/tn-fowler-objects-to-epb-cable-options-inclusion-of-pornography/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/alan-sears-why-enable-pornographers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/alan-sears-why-enable-pornographers/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:43:22 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41029 writing in the Washington Times: "Faced with the astonishing apathy of so many judges, legislators and government officials on an issue with such devastating implications for our most vulnerable citizens, it's hard not to think that those who would pay any price to sustain their lucrative traffic in pornography are delighted to have found federal law enforcers who buy into their agenda. Of course, the pornographers have the best lawyers and public relations teams billions can buy - and besides, they'll get their money back and then some. But their profits, and this Justice Department's passivity, are already costing the rest of us two things a great nation can ill afford to lose: the high moral ground and the souls of our children."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/alan-sears-why-enable-pornographers/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/texas-law-on-children-seeing-porn-being-challenged-2/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/texas-law-on-children-seeing-porn-being-challenged-2/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:28:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41033 CNSNews: "A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/texas-law-on-children-seeing-porn-being-challenged-2/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/11th-circuit-obscenity-case-tests-community-standards-on-the-internet/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/11th-circuit-obscenity-case-tests-community-standards-on-the-internet/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:33:38 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40936 Fulton County Daily Report: "The federal judges who on Thursday heard the appeal of the movie producer, known as Max Hardcore, aren't being asked to make the same judgments the jury did . . . the judges are being asked to decide some of the heaviest issues in the area of obscenity law, such as whether the government should criminalize adult films purchased over the Internet and viewed in the privacy of the home, and whether a Tampa jury should apply its own mores to materials available all over the country."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/02/11th-circuit-obscenity-case-tests-community-standards-on-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/the-community-defense-reporter-online-protecting-children-and-their-neighborhoods-7/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/the-community-defense-reporter-online-protecting-children-and-their-neighborhoods-7/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:13:22 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40923 September 2009 edition of the Community Defense Reporter is now available online at the Community Defense Counsel.]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/the-community-defense-reporter-online-protecting-children-and-their-neighborhoods-7/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/craigslist-legally-protected-despite-prostitution-ads/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/craigslist-legally-protected-despite-prostitution-ads/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:44:31 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/craigslist-legally-protected-despite-prostitution-ads/ OneNewsNow: "A federal judge has thrown out a Chicago lawsuit against Craigslist . . . 'He suggests that Craigslist is without any liability whatsoever for hosting a portion of their website titled "erotic" and another one called "adult" that are filled with prostitution ads,' Trueman explains. 'Yet the judge says they have no responsibility for the ads that are placed there.'"]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/craigslist-legally-protected-despite-prostitution-ads/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/okla-hearing-aimed-at-shaping-sexting-measure/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/okla-hearing-aimed-at-shaping-sexting-measure/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:07:26 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40888 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/30/okla-hearing-aimed-at-shaping-sexting-measure/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/texas-law-on-children-seeing-porn-being-challenged/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/texas-law-on-children-seeing-porn-being-challenged/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:50 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40833 Houston Chronicle (AP): "Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is being asked for an opinion on a law that a Dallas-area woman says let her ex-husband show their children pornography."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/texas-law-on-children-seeing-porn-being-challenged/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/san-antonio-strip-club-to-open-near-catholic-school/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/san-antonio-strip-club-to-open-near-catholic-school/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:47:27 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40829 WOAI: "Employees say a new west side club opening Thursday is exclusive. The city says it's private. But parents say what’s going on in the club is not staying in the club."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/san-antonio-strip-club-to-open-near-catholic-school/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/california-tenderloin-strip-club-shut-down/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/california-tenderloin-strip-club-shut-down/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:40:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40840 San Francisco Chronicle: "On Wednesday, a San Francisco judge ordered the notorious Tenderloin strip club closed for a year and directed its operator, Damone H. Smith, to pay at least $688,500 in fines after he violated a court agreement to bring the club into compliance with local and state laws." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/california-tenderloin-strip-club-shut-down/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/ottawa-judge-jails-man-who-wrote-porn-stories-involving-children/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/ottawa-judge-jails-man-who-wrote-porn-stories-involving-children/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:32:00 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40823 Ottawa Citizen: "A man who admitted to writing stories about incest and sex with teenage girls has been sentenced to 14 days in jail for the possession of child pornography."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/29/ottawa-judge-jails-man-who-wrote-porn-stories-involving-children/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/9th-circuit-national-community-standard-must-be-applied-in-regulating-internet-obscenity/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/9th-circuit-national-community-standard-must-be-applied-in-regulating-internet-obscenity/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:10:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40738 How Appealing reports on the today's ruling in U.S. v. Kilbride, No. 07-10528 (9th Cir. Oct. 28, 2009). This post will be updated.]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/9th-circuit-national-community-standard-must-be-applied-in-regulating-internet-obscenity/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/tucson-police-make-arrest-in-strip-club-killing/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/tucson-police-make-arrest-in-strip-club-killing/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:52:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40736 AZ Daily Star: "Tucson police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a shooting death outside a midtown strip club early Wednesday, the second homicide outside the business in the last three months."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/tucson-police-make-arrest-in-strip-club-killing/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/a-national-standard-for-obscenity/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/a-national-standard-for-obscenity/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:00:01 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40778 OneNewsNow: "The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a controversial ruling on pornography cases . . . According to the ADF attorney, the way these cases have previously been handled has been on the basis of local community standards. But Trueman suggests that if the Ninth Circuit's ruling stands, it could make convictions far more difficult than they currently are. He is hopeful the decision will be appealed."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/28/a-national-standard-for-obscenity/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/27/ms-ags-office-targets-domestic-violence-child-pornography/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/27/ms-ags-office-targets-domestic-violence-child-pornography/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:16:26 +0000 Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40432 The Meridian Star: "Hood said pedophiles use file sharing programs like Limewire to download child pornography. But before anyone can download anything from a file sharing site, whether it's child pornography or something more innocent like music, they are prompted to agree to the file sharing site's terms and conditions. Those terms and conditions include permission for other people to look on your computer for files they can download."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/27/ms-ags-office-targets-domestic-violence-child-pornography/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/26/white-ribbon-against-pornography-happening-this-week/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/26/white-ribbon-against-pornography-happening-this-week/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:53:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40372 LifeSiteNews: "This year, the annual White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week runs Sunday, Oct. 25, through Sunday, Nov. 1. WRAP Week is intended to inform the public and public officials about the harms of pornography and the need to enforce obscenity and related laws. Robert Peters, the President of Morality in Media, which is organizing the event, said . . . "]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/26/white-ribbon-against-pornography-happening-this-week/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/26/wrap-week-mobilizes-americans-to-take-action-against-pornography/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/26/wrap-week-mobilizes-americans-to-take-action-against-pornography/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:54:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40231 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/26/wrap-week-mobilizes-americans-to-take-action-against-pornography/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/23/2-new-sex-shops-in-scottsdale-are-worrying-some/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/23/2-new-sex-shops-in-scottsdale-are-worrying-some/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=40207 AZ Republic: "Activist Lisa Haskell told the Scottsdale City Council earlier this week that the area is attracting check-cashing stores, pawnshops and now Fascinations, northwest of Scottsdale Road and Oak Street. 'We don't want the area to become a dumping ground for adult-type businesses,' Haskell told the council."]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/23/2-new-sex-shops-in-scottsdale-are-worrying-some/feed/ 0