Criminal Court Judge Barry Steelman has taken under advisement a request to make a temporary gang injunction permanent.
Defense attorneys said the action taken in September 2016 should be thrown out, noting that no criminal enforcements have been brought under it.
District Attorney Neal Pinkston said crime has been down in the area where the injunction focuses, and he said there has not been an occasion to enforce it.
Attorney Chrissy Mincy asked that the earlier injunction be thrown out.
The petition asked the court to consider East Lake as a safety zone, where Gangster Disciples and Grape Street Crips would be barred from associating with other gang members, intimidating people, possessing guns or other dangerous weapons, forcibly recruiting new gang members and other actions.
A number of validated gang members were named in the petition.
A gang expert testified Tuesday about the ongoing validation system.
That case is separate from the recent action by DA Pinkston of indicting 54 members of the Athens Park Bloods gang under the RICO statute.