Curious. With a few Twitter channels out there "broadcasting" OC radio traffic....
How is that happening? Media gets a pass? Government employees off duty at home?
Not pertaining to your exact area but in way most likley media will get a subscriber radio they lease, rare occasions given one on loan with a dispatch only for pd and FD talkgroups. Radio locked. What the trend is with media but most of the time they will lease and sign disclosures along with the radio cannot leave the news ststion, any information heard before a story is aired must be approved by the agencies press information officer. Notice at least I have not any media play encrypted traffic from a leased radio. It's in the legal agreement for most others wouldn't try it fearing the radio will be pulled and killed in a second. In fact this has happened before where media leased radios were inhibited or killed temporarily, revoking at will and then unkilling them later for various reasons.
As for government employees, public works, fire, admin police, techs, etc well of course. Most have a signed radios, specially in public safety and can be called at moments notice to gear up off duty. Some public works have on calls, etc you get the idea. Some have policies you hang the radio up end of day or shift and it stays in the shop or field office.
As for techs well persons trusted to handle and maintain a system will no doubt have a work truck, van or suv with radios and portables at home monitoring a system which in some cases can be looked into if a problem occurs can be solved depending on if it's minor from remote access on a issued laptop tied into the cities or counties network. Many monitor on call while off duty listening for problems.
It may seem unfair but reality is these persons in various departments are relied upon by the public and the workers to public safety rely on system managers, techs to keep a system running and have problems troubleshooted as fast as possible to continue service to the user's and publics safety.
I have no doubt similiar will and does occur in orange county.
Most likely the agency has a stream they provide but those setups do get turned off if need be. As for a user I guess they do not like working for that employer once it is discovered on a secure system being leaked.
