California · Penal Code

PEN §13302: An employee of the local criminal justice agency who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized by law to receive the record or information is

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A criminal justice agency employee who knowingly gives unauthorized persons access to criminal records or information from those records commits a misdemeanor offense.

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An employee of the local criminal justice agency who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized by law to receive the record or information is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a public prosecutor from accessing and obtaining information from the public prosecutor’s case management database to respond to a request for publicly disclosable information pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code).

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