California Penal Code Sec. 636.5.

Wrongful Interception and Divulgence of Police Radio Communication

California Penal Code Section 636.5  Wrongful
Interception and Divulgence of Police Radio Communication.


 Any person not authorized by the sender, who intercepts
any police radio service communications, by use of a
scanner or other means, for the purpose of using that
communication to assist in the commission of a criminal
offense or to avoid or escape arrest, trial, conviction,
or punishment or who divulges to any person he or she knows
to be a suspect in the commission of any criminal offense,
the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect or
meaning of that communication concerning escape from arrest,
trial, conviction, or punishment is guilty of a misdemeanor.
 Nothing in this section shall preclude prosecution of any
person under section 31 or 32.
 As used in this section "police radio service
communications" means a communications authorized by the
Federal Communications Commission to be transmitted by a
station in the police radio service. Leg.H. 1976 ch. 1129,
1991 ch. 515.