Signed by Governor Tina Kotek

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that expands stalking laws and establishes penalties in the state of Oregon.

Highlights:

• Defines what is deemed as coming into visual or physical presence of another person (Sec. 1). 

• Establishes the following as committing the crime of stalking (Sec. 2): 

• The person knowingly alarms or coerces another person by engaging in repeated and unwanted contact with the other person; 

• It is objectively reasonable that the person in the victims situation is alarmed or coerced by contact; and

• The repeated unwanted contact causes the victim reasonable apprehension regarding personal safety. 

• Classifies stalking as a Class A misdemeanor (Sec. 2). 

• Authorizes the person to be respondent for an active protection order in any case that restrain 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 (Sec. 2). 

• Establishes the following as a violation of a court’s stalking protective order: 

• The person has been served with a court’s stalking protective order; 

• The person subsequent to the service of the order or the waiver of service has engaged intentionally, knowingly or recklessly in conduct prohibited by the order; or

• If the conduct is prohibited contact the subsequent conduct has created reasonable apprehension regarding the personal safety of a person protected by the order. 

• Establishes the effective date as July 1, 2024 (Sec. 5). 

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