California Penal Code

§ 422.4

PEN § 422.4 Effective Sep 28, 2008Title 11.5 · Part 1

Statute text

(a)Any person who publishes information describing or depicting an academic researcher or his or her immediate family member, or the location or locations where an academic researcher or an immediate family member of an academic researcher may be found, with the intent that another person imminently use the information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence against an academic researcher or his or her immediate family member, and the information is likely to produce the imminent commission of such a crime, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both a fine and imprisonment.

(b)For the purposes of this section, all of the following apply:

(1)“Publishes” means making the information available to another person through any medium, including, but not limited to, the Internet, the World Wide Web, or e-mail.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 492, Sec. 3. Effective September 28, 2008.