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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2833
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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 makes more police doing crowd management work wear ID. (Flesch Readability
Score: 80.3).
Expands the application of a law requiring law enforcement officers working in crowd manage-
ment to wear certain identification to crowd management in a city with a population of over 5,000,
instead of 60,000.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to identification of law enforcement; amending ORS 181A.702.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 181A.702 is amended to read:
181A.702. (1) A law enforcement officer who is on duty and assigned to work crowd management
in a city with a population of over [60,000] 5,000 shall have:
(a) The officer’s first initial and last name, or a unique identifier assigned by the officer’s law
enforcement agency, affixed to the front of the officer’s uniform;
(b) The officer’s first initial and last name, or a unique identifier assigned by the officer’s law
enforcement agency, affixed to the back of the officer’s uniform;
(c) If wearing a tactical helmet and assigned a unique identifier by the officer’s law enforcement
agency, the unique identifier affixed to the back of the officer’s helmet;
(d) The name of the jurisdiction of the officer’s law enforcement agency and the word
“POLICE,” “SHERIFF” or “TROOPER” on the front and back of the officer’s uniform; and
(e) A patch signifying the officer’s law enforcement agency affixed to one shoulder.
(2) The information required under subsection (1) of this section shall be affixed in a manner
that makes the letters and numbers clearly visible.
(3) A law enforcement agency shall adopt a policy prohibiting the intentional obscuring by a law
enforcement officer of any of the information required under subsection (1) of this section.
(4) This section does not apply to members of the Oregon State Police.
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.
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