My question involves criminal law for the state of: California
My current property manager has been giving us a lot of problems lately so I decided to just start recording our conversations which were always outside in front of our house. I did this having my phone simply record and have it in my pocket.
The conversation recorded included me, my mother and the manager. It was outside and more or less a shouting match and could be overheard by my brother and sister (we're all over 18) who were about 20 yards away as well as the neighbors that the Manager asked to be nearby and they were about 20-30 yards away as well. Also during this the neighbors had people stopping by who were also easily within ear shot.
It was all a lot of nonsense arguing and posturing, the owner currently filed an unlawful detainer on us and we were literally packing (or trying to except being stopped by the manager) to leave. The part of interest is we kept pleading and yelling for him to just leave us alone so we can move out while trying to walk away from him. This prompted him to say, and I quote: "I will ****ing hunt you down and be your worst nightmare."
What I have read basically is if this particular recording is found to be unlawful and made public or otherwise cause damages I can get in trouble. Really I'm not even seeking to use it in court, I want to make the current owner of the property aware of how his property manager is going about doing his business. I imagine just doing this could cause 'damages' as well.

