{"id":40929,"date":"2026-09-24T06:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=40929"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:34:24","slug":"man-charged-after-allegedly-accessing-restricted-data-lake-macquarie-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/man-charged-after-allegedly-accessing-restricted-data-lake-macquarie-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after allegedly accessing restricted data \u2013 Lake Macquarie PD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man has been charged following an investigation into the alleged unauthorised access of the police computer system in the states north last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2025, officers attached to a northern region command commenced an investigation after reports an officer was illegally accessing private information and distributing restricted police data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 47-year-old man \u2013 a sergeant attached to a command in the northern region \u2013 was since charged in relation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following further inquiries, today (Wednesday 23 September 2026), a 42-year-old man \u2013 was served a Court Attendance Notice for access \/ modify restricted data held in computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will appear before Belmont Local Court on Monday 2 November 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged following an investigation into the alleged unauthorised access of the police computer system in the states north last year. In September 2025, officers attached to a northern region command commenced an investigation after reports an officer was illegally accessing private information and distributing restricted police data. A 47-year-old man \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/man-charged-after-allegedly-accessing-restricted-data-lake-macquarie-pd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after allegedly accessing restricted data \u2013 Lake Macquarie PD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40930,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions\/40930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}