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Privacy in Oregon for first responders

What state law protects, what still leaks, and what we sweep beyond it.

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Address Confidentiality Program

Oregon maintains a state-level program that lets eligible officers, judges, and other protected workers use a substitute address for public records.

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Public-records carve-outs

  • ORS 192.368 — public records nondisclosure of home address, home phone, and personal email when disclosure would constitute a danger to personal safety.
  • ORS 30.835 — civil cause of action for improper disclosure of private information; covers stalking, harassment, or injury enabled by disclosure. Damages, attorney fees, injunctive relief.
  • ORS 802.250 — DMV record confidentiality for eligible public employees and household members.

Applicable laws

What protects you in Oregon

Oregon's working lever is ORS 192.368 — the public-records nondisclosure provision. If disclosure of your home address, home phone, or personal email would create a danger to your safety or your family's, you submit a written request to each public body holding the information, with evidence of the threat. The Attorney General sets procedural rules. The protection is general — not officer-specific — but cops, firefighters, and EMS qualify when the safety case is real.

Oregon also has a civil right to sue under ORS 30.835 — its version of New Jersey's Daniel's Law (the NJ statute that lets covered officers sue data brokers for failing to remove their home address). If someone discloses your personal information with intent to enable stalking, harassment, or injury — and you can prove it — you can sue for economic and noneconomic damages, punitive damages, attorney fees, and injunctive relief. Two-year statute of limitations. It's a back-end remedy after a doxxing event, not a removal mandate.

DMV records are confidential under ORS 802.250 for eligible public employees and household members. Voter rolls have a parallel confidentiality designation through ORS 192.368 and a separate non-disclosure order process for judges and judicial branch employees.

What still leaks

  1. Property records. Oregon does not have a statutory redaction process for property records. Deeds, tax records, and assessor filings publish your name and address.
  2. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't honor ORS 192.368. They source from out-of-state aggregators that scraped you before the nondisclosure was filed.
  3. Court filings. Civil filings on OECI often include addresses in the body of the document. The §192.368 request reaches public records the agency would otherwise release — not what's inside a court filing.

Laws that work for you here

  • ORS 192.368 — file a written nondisclosure request with each public body holding your information, with evidence of safety risk. The lever most officers actually use.
  • ORS 30.835 — civil cause of action ("you can sue them yourself") for disclosure of private information that enables stalking, harassment, or injury. Two-year window.
  • ORS 802.250 — DMV record confidentiality for eligible public employees. File with the DMV.
  • Address Confidentiality Program (ORS 192.820-192.868) — substitute-address program through the Oregon DOJ. Officer eligibility outside victim-of-crime circumstances is unclear.
  • DPPA (federal) — federal DMV floor in every state. See DPPA.

What we sweep that the state doesn't

Oregon's protections shield the agency side. The brokers don't honor them. Portland-area officers in particular have seen targeted doxxing campaigns — DHS reported coordinated doxxing of ICE and federal officers in 2025, and Portland PD reported FBI-investigated threats in 2022. We file opt-outs across 200+ people-search sites and re-check every two weeks because re-listings happen. Run a free scan to see what's exposed today.

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