Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 418 § 418.521 — Prohibitions on restraint and involuntary seclusion of child in care

Prohibitions on restraint and involuntary seclusion of child in care. (1) A child-caring agency, proctor foster home, certified foster home or developmental disabilities residential facility may not place a child in care in a restraint or involuntary seclusion as a form of discipline, punishment or retaliation or for the convenience of staff, contractors or volunteers of the child-caring agency, proctor foster home, certified foster home or developmental disabilities residential facility. (2) Except as provided in ORS 418.523 (4), the use of the following types of restraint of a child in care are prohibited: (a) Chemical restraint. (b) Mechanical restraint. (c) Prone restraint. (d) Supine restraint. (e) Any restraint that includes the intentional and nonincidental use of a solid object, including the ground, a wall or the floor, to impede a child in care’s movement. (f) Any restraint that places, or creates a risk of placing, pressure on a child in care’s neck or throat. (g) Any restraint that places, or creates a risk of placing, pressure on a child in care’s mouth. (h) Any restraint that impedes, or creates a risk of impeding, a child in care’s breathing. (i) Any restraint that involves the intentional placement of any object or a hand, knee, foot or elbow on a child in care’s neck, throat, genitals or other intimate parts. (j) Any restraint that causes pressure to be placed, or creates a risk of causing pressure to be placed, on a child in care’s stomach, chest, joints, throat or back by a knee, foot or elbow. (k) Any other action, the primary purpose of which is to inflict pain. [2021 c.672 §2; 2023 c.267 §3] Note: See note under 418.519.