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Healthcare Security Weekly, October 15, 2007
A Madison, CT police officer was arrested October 9 and charged with using state law enforcement database systems to get personal information on ex-girlfriends and women he worked with as a security officer at Yale-New Haven Hospital, reported the New Haven Register.
The 38-year-old officer, a seven-year veteran of the department, faces one felony count of first-degree computer crime, the Register reported. Police said he illegally retrieved private, personal information on female acquaintances, ex-girlfriends, his ex-wife, and a childhood friend using a state law enforcement database that police use during motor vehicle stops, the newspaper said.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, he sought information about 10 Yale-New Haven Hospital employees by entering either their names or license plate numbers into his police cruiser's computer system. Several female hospital employees who were interviewed by the newspaper said they knew the officer casually through conversations in the emergency room where he worked, and during safety escorts to their cars at the end of their shifts.
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