BILL NUMBER: AB 920	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2007

   An act to add Section 146g to the Penal Code, relating to peace
officers.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 920, as introduced, Brownley. Peace officers: misuse of
information.
   Existing law defines who may act with the authority of a peace
officer.
   This bill would make any peace officer who exchanges or solicits
the exchange of information obtained by the peace officer in the
course and scope of the peace officer's official duties for
compensation or consideration guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill
would also make any person who solicits a peace officer to exchange
information obtained by the peace officer in the course and scope of
the peace officer's official duties for compensation or consideration
guilty of a misdemeanor.
   Because this bill would create new crimes, it would impose a
state-mandated local program.
    The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 146g is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   146g.  (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5
(commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, who does either
of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor:
   (1) Discloses information obtained in the course and scope of his
or her official duties in exchange for compensation or consideration.

   (2) Solicits the exchange of information obtained in the course
and scope of his or her official duties for compensation or
consideration.
   (b) Any person who solicits a peace officer to disclose
information obtained in the course and scope of the peace officer's
official duties in exchange for compensation or consideration, is
guilty of a misdemeanor.
  SEC. 2.   No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.