&quot;Valle was also charged with violating the CFAA for accessing a police database to look up information about people without a valid law enforcement purpose, in violation of NYPD policy.&quot;<p>I find it odd that the prosecutors decided to go with a  computer fraud charge for this crime, aren&#x27;t there any laws that would prohibit this action regardless of method used? If he chose to lookup paper files on unrelated people, would he be immune to prosecution?