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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Oregon Revised Statutes: ORS 167.085 heading (anchor)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Oregon Legislature's official ORS HTML publishes ORS 167.085 under the heading quoted.",
      "body": "The Oregon Legislature's official ORS HTML publishes ORS 167.085 under the heading quoted.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“167.085 Defenses in prosecutions under ORS 167.075 and 167.080”\n\nNote: Anchor record: legislature's own statute site, state .gov domain.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.060: Minor means under 18 (obscenity sections)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.060(4): for the obscenity sections minor means an unmarried person under 18 years of age.",
      "body": "ORS 167.060(4): for the obscenity sections minor means an unmarried person under 18 years of age.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Minor means an unmarried person under 18 years of age.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "Minor means an unmarried person under 18 years of age.",
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      "subject": "ORS 167.060",
      "topic": "Minor means under 18 (obscenity sections)",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.085: Defence: reasonable cause to believe not a minor",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.085(4): it is an affirmative defense to ORS 167.075 and 167.080 that the defendant had reasonable cause to believe the person involved was not a minor.",
      "body": "ORS 167.085(4): it is an affirmative defense to ORS 167.075 and 167.080 that the defendant had reasonable cause to believe the person involved was not a minor.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“That the defendant had reasonable cause to believe that the person involved was not a minor.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "That the defendant had reasonable cause to believe that the person involved was not a minor.",
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      "subject": "ORS 167.085",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 163.690: Child sexual abuse material: lack of knowledge of age",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 163.690: it is an affirmative defense to ORS 163.684, 163.686, 163.687 or 163.693 that the defendant did not know and had no reason to know that the sexually explicit conduct involved a child.",
      "body": "ORS 163.690: it is an affirmative defense to ORS 163.684, 163.686, 163.687 or 163.693 that the defendant did not know and had no reason to know that the sexually explicit conduct involved a child.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“It is an affirmative defense to any prosecution under ORS 163.684, 163.686, 163.687 or 163.693 that the defendant, at the time of engaging in the conduct prohibited therein, did not know and did not have reason to know that the relevant sexually explicit conduct involved a child.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "It is an affirmative defense to any prosecution under ORS 163.684, 163.686, 163.687 or 163.693 that the defendant, at the time of engaging in the conduct prohibited therein, did not know and did not have reason to know that the relevant sexually explicit conduct involved a child.",
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      "subject": "ORS 163.690",
      "topic": "Child sexual abuse material: lack of knowledge of age",
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      "id": "learn_r780_oregon_age_verification_laws_780_oregon_age_verification_laws_age_167017",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.017: Prostitution of a person under 18: no age defence",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.017(3): in a prosecution for inducing or aiding prostitution by a person under 18, the state need not prove the defendant knew the age, and a reasonable belief the person was older is no defense.",
      "body": "ORS 167.017(3): in a prosecution for inducing or aiding prostitution by a person under 18, the state need not prove the defendant knew the age, and a reasonable belief the person was older is no defense.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“In a prosecution under subsection (1)(b) or (c) of this section, the state is not required to prove that the defendant knew the other person was under 18 years of age and it is no defense that the defendant did not know the persons age or that the defendant reasonably believed the person to be older than 18 years of age.”",
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      "source_link": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors167.html",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "In a prosecution under subsection (1)(b) or (c) of this section, the state is not required to prove that the defendant knew the other person was under 18 years of age and it is no defense that the defendant did not know the persons age or that the defendant reasonably believed the person to be older than 18 years of age.",
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      "subject": "ORS 167.017",
      "topic": "Prostitution of a person under 18: no age defence",
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      "id": "learn_r780_oregon_age_verification_laws_780_oregon_age_verification_laws_child_time",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 163.665: Age is measured when the image was created",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 163.665(1): for a visual recording, a child is a person under 18 at the time the original image was created, not at a later offence.",
      "body": "ORS 163.665(1): for a visual recording, a child is a person under 18 at the time the original image was created, not at a later offence.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Child means a person who is less than 18 years of age, and any reference to a child in relation to a visual recording of the child is a reference to a person who was less than 18 years of age at the time the original image in the visual recording was created and not the age of the person at the time of an alleged offense relating to the subsequent reproduction, use or possession of the visual recording.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors163.html",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "evidence_quote": "Child means a person who is less than 18 years of age, and any reference to a child in relation to a visual recording of the child is a reference to a person who was less than 18 years of age at the time the original image in the visual recording was created and not the age of the person at the time of an alleged offense relating to the subsequent reproduction, use or possession of the visual recording.",
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      "subject": "ORS 163.665",
      "topic": "Age is measured when the image was created",
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      "id": "learn_r780_oregon_age_verification_laws_780_oregon_age_verification_laws_u16",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 646A.578: Consumer privacy: under-16 data",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 646A.578(2)(c)-(d): a controller may not use targeted advertising or sell personal data when it has actual knowledge, or willfully disregards whether, the consumer is under 16.",
      "body": "ORS 646A.578(2)(c)-(d): a controller may not use targeted advertising or sell personal data when it has actual knowledge, or willfully disregards whether, the consumer is under 16.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Process a consumers personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising or of profiling the consumer in furtherance of decisions that produce legal effects or effects of similar significance if the controller has actual knowledge that, or willfully disregards whether, the consumer is under 16 years of age.”",
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      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "evidence_quote": "Process a consumers personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising or of profiling the consumer in furtherance of decisions that produce legal effects or effects of similar significance if the controller has actual knowledge that, or willfully disregards whether, the consumer is under 16 years of age.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "ORS 646A.578",
      "topic": "Consumer privacy: under-16 data",
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      "id": "learn_r780_oregon_age_verification_laws_780_oregon_age_verification_laws_child13",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 646A.570: Consumer privacy act: child means under 13",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 646A.570(5): for the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act a child is an individual under 13.",
      "body": "ORS 646A.570(5): for the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act a child is an individual under 13.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Child means an individual under the age of 13.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors646A.html",
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      "evidence_quote": "Child means an individual under the age of 13.",
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      "subject": "ORS 646A.570",
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      "id": "learn_r780_oregon_age_verification_laws_780_oregon_age_verification_laws_no_av",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS ch. 167 (obscenity and related offenses): No Oregon age-verification statute for adult sites",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The obscenity sections of ORS chapter 167 (167.051 to 167.100) contain no requirement that a website or content producer verify visitors' ages.",
      "body": "The obscenity sections of ORS chapter 167 (167.051 to 167.100) contain no requirement that a website or content producer verify visitors' ages.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“OBSCENITY AND RELATED OFFENSES   167.051 Definitions for ORS 167.057   167.057 Luring a minor   167.060 Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095   167.062 Sadomasochistic abuse or sexual conduct in live show   167.075 Exhibiting an obscene performance to a minor   167.080 Displaying obscene materials to minors   167.085 Defenses in prosecutions under ORS 167.075 and 167.080   167.090 Publicly displaying nudity or sex for advertising purposes   167.095 Defenses in prosecutions under ORS 167.090   167.100 Application of ORS 167.060 to 167.100”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing or page that does not mention it, not from operative text). Searched ORS ch. 30, 163, 165, 167, 646, 646A, 659A, 192, 181A, 133, 475, 197, 215, 305, 316, 317, 314, 60, 63 for 'age verification', 'verify the age', 'harmful to minors', 'material harmful': no hit apart from an unrelated liquor-premises security provision in ch. 181A.",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "evidence_quote": "OBSCENITY AND RELATED OFFENSES   167.051 Definitions for ORS 167.057   167.057 Luring a minor   167.060 Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095   167.062 Sadomasochistic abuse or sexual conduct in live show   167.075 Exhibiting an obscene performance to a minor   167.080 Displaying obscene materials to minors   167.085 Defenses in prosecutions under ORS 167.075 and 167.080   167.090 Publicly displaying nudity or sex for advertising purposes   167.095 Defenses in prosecutions under ORS 167.090   167.100 Application of ORS 167.060 to 167.100",
      "volatility": "medium",
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      "subject": "ORS ch. 167 (obscenity and related offenses)",
      "topic": "No Oregon age-verification statute for adult sites",
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