Guide Note:Al Zimmerman, the Florida Department of Children and Family's spokesperson, has been arrested on child pornography charges. He allegedly hired two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, to perform lewd acts that we used to create pornography.
Fast Facts:
- Age: 40
- Resides: Hillsborough, Florida
- MySpace profile relationship status: Swinger
- Charges: Eight counts of using a child in a sexual performance, federal child-pornography charges
- Mandatory minimum: 15 years
- Maximum sentence: 120 years
- Worked at DCF since 2005
- Has been fired
Al Zimmerman News
- Topix.net: Al Zimmerman
- Google News: Al Zimmerman
- Tallahassee Democrat: Fired DCF spokesman faces more child-porn charges (February 12, 2008)
- Al Zimmerman has been charged with production of child pornogaphy. He allegedly also sexually propositioned one of the boys he photographed. He allegedly convinced a computer-specialist coworker to wipe evidence off his home and work computers just before he was arrested.
- Tampa Tribune: Feds: Ex-DCF Official Sold Porn (February 12, 2008)
- Al Zimmerman allegedly met one of the boys through the Department of Children and Families. Zimmerman continued to pay the boy for explicit pictures after the boy ran away from his foster home.
- Newsweek: Spokesman for Kids Arrested (February 11, 2008)
- Background checks reveal that Al Zimmerman had been in trouble with the law for writing bad checks, among other travails, before obtaining employment as spokesman for the Department of Children and Families.
- Tallahassee Democrat: "DCF Worker Arrested on Charges of Sex with Teens" (February 2, 2008)
- Orlando Sentinel: "News and Notes Around Greater Orlando" (February 2, 2008)
- ShortNews.com: Dept. of Children & Families Spokesman Caught Hiring Teens... (February 2, 2008)
- St. Petersburg Times: "Official at DCF Linked to Kid Porn" (February 2, 2008)
- Miami Herald: "Child-Porn Arrest Rocks DCF" (February 2, 2008)
Al Zimmerman Background
Al Zimmerman Blogs and Commentaries
- Google Blog Search: Al Zimmerman
- The Raw Story: How well did Florida Gov. know alleged child porn peddler? (February 8, 2008)
- Al Zimmerman was recommended to his post as spokesman for Florida's Department of Children and Families by Charlie Crist, now-governor and then-Attorney General of the state.
- The Dreamin' Demon: Al Zimmerman: Child Advocate, Loves Boys (February 5, 2008)
- a males life after rape: This Guy… (February 5, 2008)
- Sex Offender Issues: FlL- DCF Spokesman Arrested on Child Porn Charges (February 2, 2008)