{"id":390958,"date":"2026-01-04T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:35:19","slug":"daniels-law-lowood-man-charged-with-first-alleged-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390958\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel\u2019s Law: Lowood man charged with first alleged breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queensland man has been charged with the first breach of Daniel\u2019s Law after allegedly publishing identifying information about a person listed on the state\u2019s child protection register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police issued a 47-year-old Lowood man with a notice to appear for one count of publishing identifying information without the written approval of the Police Commissioner.<\/p>\n

The register, which became publicly accessible at 11am on December 31<\/a>, allows members of the public to search for missing reportable offenders, view photographs of serious and high-risk offenders living in their local area, and submit an application to check whether an adult who spends time alone with a child is a reportable offender in Queensland.<\/p>\n

Under the Daniel\u2019s Law legislation, a person must not, without the written approval of the Police Commissioner, display, distribute or publish any identifying information. The offence carries a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment.<\/p>\n

He is expected to appear in the Ipswich Magistrates Court on January 21.<\/p>\n

Acting Police Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon said police had dealt with the Lowood man \u201cvery quickly\u201d.<\/p>\n

Police Minister Dan Purdie said since Daniel\u2019s Law went live, almost 105,000 people had accessed the website in relation to tier one – the missing reportable offenders.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in relation to tier two, which is the locality search, which gives people the ability to find out what high risk paedophiles are living in their area, there\u2019s been almost 21,000 completed applications,\u201d Mr Purdie said.<\/p>\n

Mr Purdie said there had been a further 60 applications in tier three.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re those applications that a parent and a caregiver can make to the police to find out if someone that has unsupervised access to their child is a registered child sex offender,\u201d Mr Purdie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been four hits that have identified someone on the Public Register as being a paedophile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Purdie said none of the four had been in breach of their reporting obligations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to acknowledge the Morcombe family as well, because we work with them, and I\u2019ve been texting Bruce (Morcombe) every day since the 31st and they\u2019re all so happy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law honours Daniel Morcombe who was tragically abducted and murdered in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queensland man has been charged with the first breach of Daniel\u2019s Law after allegedly publishing identifying information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[209350,64,63,689,209352,27089,209342,131825,209340,68008,209353,209345,121870,209344,209343,209346,209349,44,677,701,209341,209348,209347,209351],"class_list":["post-390958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alleged-breach","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-cheryl-scanlon","tag-child-protection","tag-child-protection-register","tag-dan-purdie","tag-danica-clayton","tag-daniels-law","tag-emergency-services-daniel","tag-identifying-information","tag-john-gass","tag-law-honours","tag-law-legislation","tag-lowood","tag-missing-reportable-offenders","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-man","tag-reporting-obligations","tag-risk-paedophiles","tag-written-approval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}