Oregon motor vehicle records privacy law
ORS 802.175-802.191
Government records · Data brokers
Oregon's counterpart to the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act. It bars DMV disclosure of personal information from motor vehicle records except for permitted purposes and restricts resale and redisclosure by recipients, with record-keeping duties and a private right of action.
- Where
- Oregon
- Citation
- ORS 802.175 to 802.191
- Status
- In force
- Enforced by
- Attorney General, district attorneys, and aggrieved individuals (ORS 802.191)
- People can sue
- Yes
- Penalties
- Aggrieved person may recover the greater of actual damages or $2,500 for knowing misuse, plus attorney fees; injunctive relief available to individuals, district attorneys and the AG (ORS 802.191).
- Applies to
- Oregon Department of Transportation, and any person or agency that receives personal information from DMV records under ORS 802.179, including resellers
Practices it requires
- Recipients may resell or redisclose DMV personal information only to other authorized recipients for authorized purposes, and never to a business that disseminates such information.ORS 802.181(1), (5)
Other duties
- Authorized resellers must keep records for five years of each recipient and permitted purpose and provide them to the department on request.ORS 802.181(6)
Sources
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Original effective date (1997 c.678) not fetched.
Research reference, not legal advice.