Co-workers and acquaintances of a former TV newsman, fired as a spokesman for the Department of Children & Families, remember him as an affable and animated man who had many friends but occasionally displayed behavior that made them wary of his professional ethics. ...more

February 6, 2008

TAMPA - Co-workers and acquaintances of a former TV newsman, fired as a spokesman for the Department of Children & Families, remember him as an affable and animated man who had many friends but occasionally displayed behavior that made them wary of his professional ethics. ...more

February 5, 2008

LARGO - A 27-year-old Largo man was booked into the Pinellas County Jail this morning on charges he got his 11-year-old niece to send him naked photos of herself using her cell phone, Largo police said. ...more

February 4, 2008

TAMPA - The former spokesman for the state agency that protects children, arrested Friday on charges that he asked two teenage boys to take sexual pictures of themselves, may have other victims, police said today. ...more

February 4, 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

TAMPA - The former spokesman for Florida's agency that protects children made his first court appearance today on eight counts of using a child in a sexual performance. Al Zimmerman's bail was doubled to $120,000 and a hearing was set for Monday to determine if it should be raised even higher, said Sandi Copes, spokeswoman for the Florida Office of the Attorney General. ...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

A man who coaxed sexual favors from two boys in exchange for trips to the skating rink received 16 1/2 years in prison and a sexual predator designation in Circuit Court on Wednesday. ...more

January 11, 2008

Surreptitiously videotaping underage girls changing into their swimsuits is not a felony under Florida law, a judge ruled Thursday. ...more

November 16, 2007

TAMPA - Surreptitiously videotaping underage girls changing into their swimsuits is not a felony under Florida law, a judge ruled today Thursday. ...more

November 15, 2007