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What are the requirements for getting an Oregon stalking protective order (SPO)?

Oregon law has specific requirements to have a Stalking Protective Order (SPO) granted by the court. Fundamentally, you or a member of your immediate family (or household) must have been contacted by a person more than once in the past two years with specific requirements about the behavior

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Published September 21, 2020

What qualifies as "stalking" in Oregon?

Oregon law has specific requirements to have a Stalking Protective Order (SPO) granted by the court. Fundamentally, you or a member of your immediate family (or household) must have been contacted by a person more than once in the past two years with the following requirements to qualify as stalking.

  • More than once means at least two separate contacts
  • The repeated and unwanted contact must be is alarming (frightening) or coercive (using force) to you
  • It must be reasonable for you to feel alarmed or coerced (i.e. not the mailman waving hello when he or she delivers mail)
  • The unwanted contacts cause you to reasonably fear for your physical safety or the physical safety of your family or members of your household.

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