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type: "Bill"
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title: "Peace officers: communications."
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description: "Existing law establishes various prohibitions against eavesdropping and recording or intercepting certain communications. Violations of these prohibitions are crimes. Under existing law, specified law enforcement officers are not prohibited by those provisions from overhearing or recording any communication that they could lawfully overhear or record prior to January 1, 1968."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 2669"
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citation: "California AB 2669 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Peace officers: communications."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2018-02-15"
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last_action: "2018-08-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c69bdf7d-965a-4a51-8643-7181a2d1e353"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669"
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source_hash: "99c842354902aaed1fe6658d0424ae2abb76c9c4ae4d758f8ee7b90222b689d1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2669 (20172018) — Peace officers: communications.
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Existing law establishes various prohibitions against eavesdropping and recording or intercepting certain communications. Violations of these prohibitions are crimes. Under existing law, specified law enforcement officers are not prohibited by those provisions from overhearing or recording any communication that they could lawfully overhear or record prior to January 1, 1968.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/15/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669&version=20170AB266999INT)
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2. **03/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669&version=20170AB266998AMD)
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3. **06/20/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669&version=20170AB266997AMD)
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4. **08/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669&version=20170AB266995CHP)
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5. **AB2669** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669)
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6. **08/07/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2669&version=20170AB266996ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 2669 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB2669 Jones-Sawyer By Wiener — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2669 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2018-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-04-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4560.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2018-04-19** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2018-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2018-06-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2018-07-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5104.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-07-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2018-08-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6142.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2018-08-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
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- **2018-08-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2018-08-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 175, Statutes of 2018.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c69bdf7d-965a-4a51-8643-7181a2d1e353`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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