A former Lake Forest planning commissioner pleaded guilty Friday to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 118 days of community service instead of jail.
Jerry J. Zechmeister, 62, of Lake Forest, also pleaded guilty to the sale or distribution of obscene matter.
Zechmeister was placed on three years of formal probation.
Investigators seized three computers and two external hard drives from his home in October 2013.
When Zechmeister was charged last June, prosecutors said a search of the computers showed about 160 child pornography videos. Investigators suspected the videos were collected over a seven-year period.
— City News Service