Are you saying that there's law in California (i.e. something you can violate that the justice system has the authority to punish you over) that is not freely (as in freedom) available to any citizen (for whatever purpose, reading, distributing, etc)?
It is available online, but its unusable for the layman due to ridiculously bad design. You must agree to a contract to use it ("terms of use", "license") and promise never to repeat what you read. Purposely bad design in my opinion. Its 30,000 sections of regulations we're talking about here (there's a further 150,000 sections of California law, 50,000 sections of federal law, and 30,000 sections of federal regulations), and you only know it doesn't apply after you read it. Its javascript-based and uses session cookies, so if you take longer than 5 minutes to read a 30 page section with a bad layout that uses intensely complex verbiage, the next click will "close the book" in your face, and if you have no idea where you were, well, tough luck, there's always prison. If you try and open multiple windows, say, to read another section which is referred to, each window will interfere with each other. (Even trying will likely close the book in your face.) Each click is unbearably slow to load. (29,999 bottles of beer on the wall, 29,999 bottles of beer, take one down, can't pass it around, 30,001 bottles of beer on the wall.) There is no way to give a permalink to your grandma or on your blog, because there are no permalinks. Grandma will have to try and navigate the horrible website herself, and when she likely fails, well, tough luck, there's always prison.
It is available as bulk data on CD-ROM (in California) for a significant price, on the order of $3000 per edition. Did I mention it changes almost constantly? Obviously, no permalinks for your blog.
California is better than most in that the government was sued and forced to release the statutory law on the web.[1] Other states are not so lucky.
I know this sounds lame, but freedom isn't free, and you shouldn't have to give up any rights to access the laws that bind you. Period. No exceptions. No compromise.
(I should note the biggest problem with this seems to be codified regulations, not so much the codified laws or gazettes, although some states do require a contract to view the "free" versions of the statutes, such as Georgia and Colorado. And I should note the online version of the Code of Massachusetts Regulations from the Secretary of the Commonwealth costs $110 per year and requires a credit card...)
Usually the law as enacted by the legislature / ruled by the courts is free, but they might incorporate by reference some non-free rules developed and maintained by commercial entities. These are things like building codes, fire codes, and so on, which might cost thousands of dollars for a copy and not be redistributable. [2] The recentish example (2002) is Veeck vs. SBCCI[3].
[1] https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/04/16/can-states-...
[2] http://simplesupports.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/building-code...
[3] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Veeck_v._Southern_Building_Cod...
You could make a Public Records Act request under California State Law,which is conceptually similar.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/07/s...