San Mateo county child porn official given 16 months

Alex Kern, 39, former San Mateo County auditor in Redwood City, CA, who was caught with over 4,000 child pornography images on a county-issued laptop, is going to prison.

This office has received two FBI Internet porn cases recently, and this works is how it seems to work: The FBI the initiates the matter by use of Internet technology such as Internet “cookies.” They turn over the evidence to a locals0, such as the San Mateo DA, and let him do the work. Or, more commonly lately, the FBI turns the evidence over to Homeland Security or other enforcement branch with financial resources and then brings the case(s) before a federal grand jury .

Kerr had no criminal record and had pleaded for probation or at least county jail time, as opposed to prison time. He has a 14-year old daughter and an 11-year old son, he has expressed severe remorse, he is at low risk to re-offend according to is probation report, and he has just been served with divorce papers by his long-term wife.

Still, this being San Mateo County—the man got 16 months in state prison. Plus, he has the certainty of a very difficult time when he is released, as permitted by California’s sex predator laws, aside from his likely life-long federal obligat