163.472 Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image if:
(a) The person, with the intent to harass, humiliate or injure another person, knowingly causes to be disclosed an image of the other person whose intimate parts are visible or who is engaged in sexual conduct;
(b) The person knows or reasonably should have known that the other person does not consent to the disclosure;
(c) The other person is harassed, humiliated or injured by the disclosure; and
(d) A reasonable person would be harassed, humiliated or injured by the disclosure.
(2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, unlawful dissemination of an intimate image is a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image is a Class C felony if the person has a prior conviction under this section at the time of the offense.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Disclose” includes, but is not limited to, transfer, publish, distribute, exhibit, advertise and offer.
(b) “Image” includes, but is not limited to, the following, regardless of the manner in which the image is stored:
(A) A photograph, film, videotape, recording, digital picture or other visual reproduction.
(B) A digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic.
(c) “Information content provider” has the meaning given that term in 47 U.S.C. 230(f).
(d) “Interactive computer service” has the meaning given that term in 47 U.S.C. 230(f).
(e) “Intimate parts” means uncovered human genitals, pubic areas or female nipples.
(f) “Sexual conduct” means sexual intercourse or oral or anal sexual intercourse, as those terms are defined in ORS 163.305, or masturbation.
(4) This section does not apply to:
(a) Act
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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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163.472 Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image if:
(a) The person, with the intent to harass, humiliate or injure another person, knowingly causes to be disclosed an image of the other person whose intimate parts are visible or who is engaged in sexual conduct;
(b) The person knows or reasonably should have known that the other person does not consent to the disclosure;
(c) The other person is harassed, humiliated or injured by the disclosure; and
(d) A reasonable person would be harassed, humiliated or injured by the disclosure.
(2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, unlawful dissemination of an intimate image is a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image is a Class C felony if the person has a prior conviction under this section at the time of the offense.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Disclose” includes, but is not limited to, transfer, publish, distribute, exhibit, advertise and offer.
(b) “Image” includes, but is not limited to, the following, regardless of the manner in which the image is stored:
(A) A photograph, film, videotape, recording, digital picture or other visual reproduction.
(B) A digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic.
(c) “Information content provider” has the meaning given that term in 47 U.S.C. 230(f).
(d) “Interactive computer service” has the meaning given that term in 47 U.S.C. 230(f).
(e) “Intimate parts” means uncovered human genitals, pubic areas or female nipples.
(f) “Sexual conduct” means sexual intercourse or oral or anal sexual intercourse, as those terms are defined in ORS 163.305, or masturbation.
(4) This section does not apply to:
(a) Activity by law enforcement agencies investigating and prosecuting criminal offenses;
(b) Legitimate medical, scientific or educational activities;
(c) Legal proceedings, when disclosure is consistent with common practice in civil proceedings or necessary for the proper functioning of the criminal justice system;
(d) The reporting of unlawful conduct to a law enforcement agency;
(e) Disclosures that serve a lawful public interest;
(f) Disclosures of images:
(A) Depicting the other person voluntarily displaying, in a public area, the other person’s intimate parts or engaging in sexual conduct; or
(B) Originally created for a commercial purpose with the consent of the other person; or
(g) The provider of an interactive computer service for an image of intimate parts provided by an information content provider. [2015 c.379 §1; 2017 c.318 §11; 2019 c.304 §1; 2024 c.42 §4; 2025 c.116 §1]
Note: 163.472 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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163.305 Definitions. As used in chapter 743, Oregon Laws 1971, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Forcible compulsion” means to compel by:
(a) Physical force; or
(b) A threat, express or implied, that places a person in fear of immediate or future death or physical injury to self or another person, or in fear that the person or another person will immediately or in the future be kidnapped.
(2) “Mentally incapacitated” means that a person is rendered incapable of appraising or controlling the conduct of the person at the time of the alleged offense.
(3) “Oral or anal sexual intercourse” means sexual conduct between persons consisting of contact between the sex organs or anus of one person and the mouth or anus of another.
(4) “Physically helpless” means that a person is unconscious or for any other reason is physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.
(5) “Sexual contact” means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person or causing such person to touch the sexual or other intimate parts of the actor for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either party.
(6) “Sexual intercourse” has its ordinary meaning and occurs upon any penetration, however slight; emission is not required. [1971 c.743 §104; 1975 c.461 §1; 1977 c.844 §1; 1979 c.744 §7; 1983 c.500 §1; 1999 c.949 §1; 2009 c.770 §1; 2017 c.318 §2; 2017 c.634 §17; 2021 c.82 §1; 2023 c.407 §1]
Note: Legislative Counsel has substituted “chapter 743, Oregon Laws 1971,” for the words “this Act” in section 104, chapter 743, Oregon Laws 1971, compiled as 163.305. Specific ORS references have not been substituted, pursuant to 173.160. These sections may be determined by referring to the 1971 Comparative Section Table located in Volume 22 of ORS.
163.730 Definitions for ORS 30.866 and 163.730 to 163.750. As used in ORS 30.866 and 163.730 to 163.750, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Alarm” means to cause apprehension or fear resulting from the perception of danger.
(2) “Coerce” means to restrain, compel or dominate by force or threat.
(3) “Contact” includes but is not limited to:
(a) Coming into the visual or physical presence of the other person;
(b) Following the other person;
(c) Waiting outside the home, property, place of work or school of the other person or of a member of that person’s family or household;
(d) Sending or making written or electronic communications in any form to the other person;
(e) Speaking with the other person by any means;
(f) Communicating with the other person through a third person;
(g) Committing a crime against the other person;
(h) Communicating with a third person who has some relationship to the other person with the intent of affecting the third person’s relationship with the other person;
(i) Communicating with business entities with the intent of affecting some right or interest of the other person;
(j) Damaging the other person’s home, property, place of work or school;
(k) Delivering directly or through a third person any object to the home, property, place of work or school of the other person;
(L) Service of process or other legal documents unless the other person is served as provided in ORCP 7 or 9;
(m) Obtaining, possessing, transferring, creating, uttering or converting to the person’s own use the personal identification of the other person;
(n) Disclosing an image of the other person, whose intimate parts are visible or who is engaged in sexual conduct, without the consent of the other person;
(o) The use of an electronic service, appli
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.
163.750 Violating a court’s stalking protective order. (1) A person commits the crime of violating a court’s stalking protective order if:
(a) The person has been served with a court’s stalking protective order as provided in ORS 30.866 or 163.738, or service was waived under ORS 163.741 because the person appeared before the court;
(b) 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; and
(c) If the conduct is prohibited contact as defined in ORS 163.730 (3)(d), (e), (f), (h) or (i), the subsequent conduct has created reasonable apprehension regarding the personal safety of a person protected by the order.
(2)(a) Violating a court’s stalking protective order is a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, violating a court’s stalking protective order 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 that order is not the same as the person protected by the order at issue in the current offense; or
(C) At least one instance of unwanted contact is the commission of the following against the person protected by the order:
(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 violating a court’s stalking protective order i
**(a) Findings** The Congress finds the following:
(1) The rapidly developing array of Internet and other interactive computer services available to individual Americans represent an extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to our citizens.
(2) These services offer users a great degree of control over the information that they receive, as well as the potential for even greater control in the future as technology develops.
(3) The Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity.
(4) The Internet and other interactive computer services have flourished, to the benefit of all Americans, with a minimum of government regulation.
(5) Increasingly Americans are relying on interactive media for a variety of political, educational, cultural, and entertainment services.
**(b) Policy** It is the policy of the United States—
(1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3) to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
(4) to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and
(5) to ensure vigorous enforcement of
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Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
§ 230. Protection for private blocking and screen-
ing of offensive material
(a) Findings
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The rapidly developing array of Internet
and other interactive computer services avail-
able to individual Americans represent an ex-
traordinary advance in the availability of edu-
cational and informational resources to our
citizens.
(2) These services offer users a great degree
of control over the information that they re-
ceive, as well as the potential for even greater
control in the future as technology develops.
(3) The Internet and other interactive com-
puter services offer a forum for a true diver-
sity of political discourse, unique opportuni-
ties for cultural development, and myriad ave-
nues for intellectual activity.
(4) The Internet and other interactive com-
puter services have flourished, to the benefit
of all Americans, with a minimum of govern-
ment regulation.
(5) Increasingly Americans are relying on
interactive media for a variety of political,
educational, cultural, and entertainment serv-
ices.
(b) Policy
It is the policy of the United States—
(1) to promote the continued development of
the Internet and other interactive computer
services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive
free market that presently exists for the
Internet and other interactive computer serv-
ices, unfettered by Federal or State regula-
tion;
(3) to encourage the development of tech-
nologies which maximize user control over
what information is received by individuals,
families, and schools who use the Internet and
other interactive computer services;
(4) to remove disincentives for the develop-
ment and utilization of blocking and filtering
technologies that empower parents to restrict
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