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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2551
Sponsored by Representative HUDSON (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells a public university to look at data from DPSST about a person who wants
to be a campus security officer. The Act says that DPSST can share the data. (Flesch Readability
Score:61.0).
Directs the governing board of a public university to request and review background informa-
tion about special campus security officers before commissioning the officer.
Allows the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to share information about ap-
plicants with a public university.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to security on campus; amending ORS 181A.972.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 181A.972 is amended to read:
181A.972. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Institution of higher education” has the meaning given that term in ORS 163A.005.
(b) “Private security professional” and “private security provider” have the meanings given
those terms in ORS 181A.840.
(2)(a) An institution of higher education that employs or contracts with a private security pro-
vider, or the governing board of a public university listed in ORS 352.002 that commissions special
campus security officers under ORS 352.118 to provide security services on campus, shall ensure
that a nationwide criminal records check is conducted for each private security professional or
special campus security officer providing security services on campus.
(b) The governing board of a public university listed in ORS 352.002 that commissions
special campus security officers under ORS 352.118 to provide security services on campus
shall request and review background information, including information about disciplinary
action, about the special campus security officer from the Department of Public Safety
Standards and Training before commissioning the officer.
[(b)] (c) The governing board of a public university listed in ORS 352.002 that commissions
special campus security officers under ORS 352.118 to provide security services on campus shall
ensure that each officer undergoes psychological testing to determine the officer’s fitness to serve
as a special campus security officer.
(3)(a) A law enforcement agency may share information about applicants for employment with
the agency with an institution of higher education. An institution of higher education may use in-
formation shared under this subsection for purposes of hiring private security professionals or spe-
cial campus security officers.
(b) The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training may share information
about an applicant to serve as a special campus security officer with a public university
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1225 HB2551
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listed in ORS 352.002. A public university may use information shared under this subsection
for the purpose of hiring special campus security officers.
(4) A private security provider that provides security services on the campus of an institution
of higher education or the governing board of a public university listed in ORS 352.002 that com-
missions special campus security officers under ORS 352.118 to provide security services on campus
shall ensure that:
(a) Vehicles used by private security professionals or special campus security officers in the
scope of their employment on campus are equipped with:
(A) A global positioning system device, as defined in ORS 163.715, for which global positioning
data is retained for at least 90 days;
(B) A video camera that records the scene within the vehicle and for which video recordings
are retained for at least 90 days; or
(C) A dispatch system for which a record of calls is maintained for at least 90 days.
(b) Uniforms worn by private security professionals or special campus security officers in the
scope of their employment on campus can be easily differentiated from the uniform of any law
enforcement officer certified by the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, with dif-
ferentiations including, but not limited to, prominent designation of “campus security” or prominent
use of a school logo or school colors.
(5) An institution of higher education that employs or contracts with a private security provider,
or the governing board of a public university listed in ORS 352.002 that commissions special campus
security officers under ORS 352.118 to provide security services on campus, shall ensure that vehi-
cles used by private security professionals or special campus security officers in the scope of their
employment on campus:
(a) Are clearly identified as a campus vehicle on the front of the vehicle;
(b) Do not use red and blue light bars;
(c) Do not use bumpers intended to ram another vehicle in order to cause a stall; and
(d) Do not use cages.
(6) When a private security professional or special campus security officer makes a probable
cause arrest or an arrest under ORS 133.225 in the course of the individual’s duties on the campus
of an institution of higher education, the institution of higher education or governing board of the
public university listed in ORS 352.002 for whom the individual provides security services:
(a) Shall promptly notify a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the area in which the
arrest took place.
(b) May not retain evidence related to the arrest except for the purpose of providing the evi-
dence to a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the area in which the arrest took place.
(7) Private security professionals and special campus security officers commissioned under ORS
352.118 who provide security services on the campus of an institution of higher education do not
have stop and frisk authority as set forth in ORS 131.605 to 131.625.
(8) If an institution of higher education contracts with a private security provider to provide
temporary security for an event, the terms of the contract must require the private security provider
to comply with all relevant statutes and rules governing the duties of contracted private security
providers.
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