163.720 Unlawful disclosure of private information. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information if:
(a) The person, with the intent to stalk or injure another person, or to cause damage to another person’s property, knowingly causes the other person’s personal information to be disclosed;
(b) The person knows or reasonably should have known that the other person did not consent to the disclosure; and
(c) The other person is stalked or injured, or the other person’s property is damaged, as a result of the disclosure.
(2) Unlawful disclosure of private information is a Class B misdemeanor.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Disclose” includes, but is not limited to, transfer, publish, distribute, exhibit, advertise and offer.
(b) “Injure” means to subject another to bodily injury or death.
(c) “Personal information” means:
(A) A person’s home address, personal electronic mail address, personal phone number or Social Security number;
(B) Contact information for a person’s employer;
(C) Contact information for a family member of a person;
(D) Photographs of a person’s child; or
(E) Identification of the school that a person’s child attends.
(d) “Stalk” means conduct constituting the crime of stalking under ORS 163.732 or conduct that would give rise to an action for issuance or violation of a stalking protective order under ORS 30.866. [2025 c.417 §1]
Note: 163.720 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 163 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
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Chapter 163 — Offenses Against Persons
2025 EDITION
OFFENSES AGAINST PERSONS
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
HOMICIDE
ASSAULT AND RELATED OFFENSES
KIDNAPPING AND RELATED OFFENSES
COERCION
SEXUAL OFFENSES
OFFENSES AGAINST FAMILY
VISUAL RECORDING OF SEXUAL CONDUCT OF CHILDREN
INVASION OF PRIVACY
MISCELLANEOUS
STALKING
SEXUAL ABUSE RESTRAINING ORDERS
HOMICIDE
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163.720 Unlawful disclosure of private information. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information if:
(a) The person, with the intent to stalk or injure another person, or to cause damage to another person’s property, knowingly causes the other person’s personal information to be disclosed;
(b) The person knows or reasonably should have known that the other person did not consent to the disclosure; and
(c) The other person is stalked or injured, or the other person’s property is damaged, as a result of the disclosure.
(2) Unlawful disclosure of private information is a Class B misdemeanor.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Disclose” includes, but is not limited to, transfer, publish, distribute, exhibit, advertise and offer.
(b) “Injure” means to subject another to bodily injury or death.
(c) “Personal information” means:
(A) A person’s home address, personal electronic mail address, personal phone number or Social Security number;
(B) Contact information for a person’s employer;
(C) Contact information for a family member of a person;
(D) Photographs of a person’s child; or
(E) Identification of the school that a person’s child attends.
(d) “Stalk” means conduct constituting the crime of stalking under ORS 163.732 or conduct that would give rise to an action for issuance or violation of a stalking protective order under ORS 30.866. [2025 c.417 §1]
Note: 163.720 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 163 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
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Oregon criminal law — ORS Title 16 (2025 snapshot) · legal_authorities
163.732 Stalking. (1) A person commits the crime of stalking if:
(a) The person knowingly alarms or coerces another person or a member of that person’s immediate family or household by engaging in repeated and unwanted contact with the other person;
(b) It is objectively reasonable for a person in the victim’s situation to have been alarmed or coerced by the contact; and
(c) The repeated and unwanted contact causes the victim reasonable apprehension regarding the personal safety of the victim or a member of the victim’s immediate family or household.
(2)(a) Stalking is a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, stalking is a Class C felony if:
(A) The person has a prior conviction for:
(i) Stalking, or an equivalent crime in another jurisdiction; or
(ii) Violating a court’s stalking protective order, or an equivalent crime in another jurisdiction;
(B) The person is the respondent for an active protection order in any jurisdiction that restrains the person from stalking, intimidating, molesting or menacing another person, and the person protected by the order is not the victim of the current offense; or
(C) At least one instance of unwanted contact is the commission of the following against the victim:
(i) A felony;
(ii) Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image under ORS 163.472; or
(iii) Unlawful use of a global positioning system device under ORS 163.715.
(c) When stalking is a Class C felony pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subsection, stalking shall be classified as a person felony and as crime category 8 of the sentencing guidelines grid of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. [1993 c.626 §2; 1995 c.353 §2; 2024 c.90 §2]
Note: See note under 163.730.