Oregon Code § 146.181·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Missing persons; police report; supplementary report.
(1) When a person is reported as
missing to any city, county or state police agency, the agency, within 12 hours
thereafter, shall enter into state and federal records maintained for that
purpose, a report of the missing person in a format and according to procedures
established by the authorities responsible respectively for the state and
federal records.
(2) The law
enforcement agency to which the report is made:
(a) May request
from the person making the report information or material likely to be useful
in identifying the missing person or the human remains of the missing person,
including, but not limited to:
(A) The name of
the missing person and any alternative names the person uses;
(B) The date of
birth of the missing person;
(C) A physical
description of the missing person, including the height, weight, gender, race,
eye color, current hair color and natural hair color of the missing person, any
identifying marks on the missing person, any prosthetics used by, or surgical
implants in, the missing person and any physical anomalies of the missing
person;
(D) The blood
type of the missing person;
(E) The driver
license number of the missing person;
(F) The Social
Security number of the missing person;
(G) A recent
photograph of the missing person;
(H) A description
of the clothing the missing person is believed to have been wearing at the time
the person disappeared;
(I) A description
of items that the missing person is believed to have had with the person at the
time the person disappeared;
(J) Telephone
numbers and electronic mail addresses of the missing person;
(K) The name and
address of any school the missing person attends;
(L) The name and
address of any employer of the missing person;
(M) The name and
address of the physician, physician associate, naturopathic physician, nurse
practitioner or dentist who provides health care services to the missing
person;
(N) A description
of any vehicle that the missing person might have been driving or riding in
when the person disappeared;
(O) The reasons
why the person making the missing person report believes the person is missing;
(P) Any
circumstances that indicate that the missing person may be at risk of injury or
death;
(Q) Any
circumstances that may indicate that the disappearance is not voluntary;
(R) Information
about a known or possible abductor or a person who was last seen with the
missing person; and
(S) The date of
the last contact with the missing person.
(b) May request
in writing from any dentist, denturist, physician, physician associate,
naturopathic physician, nurse practitioner, optometrist or other medical
practitioner possessing it such medical, dental or other physically descriptive
information as is likely to be useful in identifying the missing person or the
human remains of the missing person.
(3) The law
enforcement agency, upon obtaining information pursuant to subsection (2) of
this section, shall make a supplementary entry of that information into the
state and federal records described in subsection (1) of this section. The
supplementary report shall be in a format and according to procedures
established by the authorities responsible respectively for the state and
federal records. [Formerly 146.525; 2014 c.45 §25; 2017 c.356 §16; 2024 c.73 §40]