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Oregon Law Center proposes landlord confidentiality bill to protect tenants' sensitive data
Summary
The Oregon Law Center previewed a legislative concept to add explicit confidentiality protections to Oregon's Landlord‑Tenant Act: landlords could not disclose personally identifying or financially sensitive tenant data without written consent, with a penalty of two months' rent for knowing violations and exemptions for necessary business disclosures.
Cybil Hebb of the Oregon Law Center briefed the committee on a legislative concept to create statutory confidentiality protections for tenant information in the Landlord‑Tenant Act.
Hebb said the draft would define a class of "personally identifying, financially sensitive, and other information" that landlords may not disclose without written tenant consent except in…
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