TAMPA - Florida lawmakers and state Attorney General Bill McCollum will discuss legislation Tuesday morning designed to help child pornography victims. ...more

February 18, 2008

TAMPA - It came down to a matter of trust. A federal magistrate today denied bail for former Department of Children & Families spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

February 13, 2008

It came down to a matter of trust. A federal magistrate Tuesday denied bail for former Department of Children & Families spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

February 13, 2008

A former state Department of Children & Families spokesman now faces federal charges of producing child pornography that prosecutors say he was selling in Germany. ...more

February 12, 2008

TAMPA - A federal prosecutor said in court today that a former state Department of Children & Families spokesman charged with producing child pornography is a flight risk and a danger to the community. Prosecutor Colleen Murphy told Judge Mark Pizzo that Al Zimmerman, 41, should be held without bail because he has a "lack of ties, no job, no property, no assets, and no children." She said he's living with his parents. ...more

February 11, 2008

The head of the state agency that protects children has called the arrest of its spokesman on child pornography charges "a setback" to efforts to repair its troubled image. ...more

February 2, 2008

The spokesman for the agency that protects Florida's children is accused of soliciting two teenagers to perform lewd acts so he could make child porn, authorities said Friday. ...more

February 2, 2008

CLEARWATER - A 43-year-old California man was arrested Wednesday for soliciting an undercover Clearwater police officer online who was posing as a child, authorities said. ...more

January 31, 2008

Child pornography may be in the eyes the beholder. Two pediatricians had trouble during a hearing Monday in federal court determining whether the pictures deleted from a defendant's computer depicted children. The doctors were testifying in a sentencing hearing for Ronald Mays. ...more

January 8, 2008

Two pediatricians had trouble during a hearing today in federal court determining whether the pictures deleted from a defendant's computer depicted children. The doctors were testifying in a sentencing hearing for Ronald Mays. ...more

January 7, 2008