Reporting

Intimate partner or domestic violence directed at adults

• Unlike California and a handful of other states, Oregon has no law mandating the routine reporting of domestic violence involving adults.
• ORS 146.710 does require physicians to report physical injuries caused by a knife, gun, pistol or other deadly weapon to the medical examiner.

• Oregon requires physicians, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, licensed clinical social workers, and emergency medical technicians (among others) to report child abuse. ORS 419B.005 (3)
• In Oregon, child abuse includes (among other definitions) the "threatened harm to a child, which means subjecting a child to a substantial risk of harm to the child’s health or welfare." ORS 419B.005 (1)(g)
• In Lane County, Services to Children and Families (SCF) interprets ORS419B.005 (1)(g) to include living in a household where there is domestic violence.
• Clinical, medical and social service staff are encouraged to report to SCF when they determine that domestic violence is happening in a household where children are living. Staff should attempt to work with the adult victim of domestic violence when making this report.

• ORS 410.610:RF8 and ORS 430.735 require a very wide variety of health care providers to report the abuse or neglect of elderly, mentally ill or disabled persons to Senior and Disabled Services.