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Sears served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office for western Kentucky. During his time as a federal prosecutor Sears served as staff executive director of the [[Meese Commission|Attorney General's Commission on Pornography]] also known as the [[Meese Commission]]. This commission was established by Attorney General [[William French Smith]] at the direction of President Reagan in early 1985. The commission became popularly known as the [[Meese Commission]] after [[Edwin Meese III]], Smith's successor, announced the names of its eleven members in May 1985. Although he was not a voting member, Sears was influential on the commission and vigorously supported strengthening anti-obscenity laws.<ref name="Legatus">{{cite news |last=Ferrisi |first=Sabrina Arena |date=1 November 2014 |title=Fighting the good fight |url=http://www.legatusmagazine.org/tag/pope-john-paul-ii/ |newspaper=Legatus |location=United States |access-date=14 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="E1">{{cite book |last=Vaughn |first=Stephen |date=2006 |title=Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media |url=https://booksarchive.google.com.hkorg/books?iddetails/freedomentertain0000vaug |url-access=B7MkaxKGTGAC&dqregistration |quote=%22alan+alan sears%22+ pornography&source=gbs_navlinks_s. |location=United Kingdom |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/freedomentertain0000vaug/page/126 126] |isbn=0521676541 |access-date=13 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Register">{{cite news |last=McFeely |first=Tom |date= |title=Alliance Defense Fund's Chief Convert |url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/alliance-defense-funds-chief-convert/ |newspaper=National Catholic Register |location=United States |access-date=14 April 2015}}</ref>

Sears served as associate solicitor under Secretary [[Donald P. Hodel|Donald Hodel]] at the [[United States Department of the Interior|Department of the Interior]].{{cn|date=January 2020}}