Administering Entity
Oregon State Police
Arrestees: No.
Convicted Offenders: Yes.
Qualifying Crimes: Any felony; third-degree sexual abuse or public indecency; conspiracy or attempt to commit third-degree rape, third-degree sodomy, second-degree sexual abuse, second-degree burglary, or promoting prostitution; and murder or aggravated murder. For minors: committing an act that, if done by an adult, would constitute one of the following enumerated felonies: rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration, sexual abuse in the first or second degree, public indecency, incest or using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct; burglary in the second degree, when committed with intent to commit any offense listed above; promoting or compelling prostitution; burglary in the first degree; conspiracy or attempt to commit any Class A or Class B felony enumerated above; or murder or aggravated murder
Time of Collection: Collected at the appropriate agency’s request as soon as practicable after conviction; before release, for those incarcerated; or as a condition of probation. No sample is taken where one was already collected or where collection would create a substantial or unreasonable risk to the defendant’s health.
Expungement: By written request from the person who provided the sample, with a certified copy of the court order reversing the conviction, judgment, or order that created the obligation to provide it. The department need not destroy physical evidence from a sample where evidence relating to another covered person would be destroyed with it.
Statutes / Case Law
O.R.S. § 137.076. Blood or buccal sample and thumbprint of certain convicted defendants; application
O.R.S. § 181A.155. Authority over blood, buccal and other samples
O.R.S. § 419C.473. Blood or buccal samples; felonies subject to requirement
Legislative History
1991 HB 3444 Ch. 669. Created ORS 137.076. Required blood samples from persons convicted of specified crimes — primarily sex offenses (rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, unlawful sexual penetration, incest, child exploitation), prostitution-related offenses, burglary with intent to commit sex offenses, and murder/aggravated murder. Required samples to be transmitted to the Oregon State Police for criminal identification analysis. Established the legal framework for Oregon’s DNA offender database. Effective September 29, 1991.
1993 Unknown Ch. 14 §3. Amended ORS 137.076 in some respect. The bill is 3 sections long (§3 is the ORS 137.076 amendment), suggesting a focused, targeted amendment rather than an omnibus revision. Specific content cannot be confirmed without accessing the physical Oregon Laws 1993 volume or an Archives copy. Bill number unknown.
1993 Unknown Ch. 33 §298. Amended ORS 137.076 at section 298 of a 298-section bill — almost certainly a major criminal law or corrections omnibus revision (Oregon’s 1993 legislature produced several large criminal code restructuring bills). The ORS 137.076 amendment at §298 of a 298-section omnibus was almost certainly a conforming or clarifying change made as part of broader criminal code reorganization. Bill number and specific amendment content unknown.
1993 Unknown Ch. 301 §3. Amended ORS 137.076 in some respect. Like Ch. 14, this is a short bill (§3 is the relevant section), suggesting a targeted amendment. Specific content and bill number unknown without Archives access.
1999 HB 2420 Ch. 97. substantial expansion and modernization of the DNA collection mandate. Key changes:
Added buccal (cheek swab) samples as an alternative collection method to blood draws
Required collection of the convicted person’s thumbprint alongside the DNA sample
Expanded covered offenses to include standalone burglary in the first degree (ORS 164.225) and assault in the first degree (ORS 163.185)
Applied the mandate retroactively to any person incarcerated on or after September 29, 1991 for a qualifying offense, requiring sample collection before release
Extended the obligation to juveniles adjudicated for qualifying felony offenses (ORS 419C.473)
Authorized OSP to create statistical population frequency databases (non-identified)
Clarified that sample collection extends to persons found guilty except for insanity (ORS 161.325)
2001 HB 2664 Ch. 852. The most significant expansion of Oregon’s DNA database, shifting from an offense-specific list to a universal felony collection mandate. Key changes:
Expanded collection to all felony convictions — any person convicted of a felony (not just the enumerated list) must provide a DNA sample
Required supervisory authorities to retroactively collect samples from persons already on parole, post-prison supervision, or probation for felony offenses who had not yet been sampled, with a collection deadline of June 30, 2002
Added a prioritization system for OSP analysis when resources are limited (sex crimes and violent offenses first, then drug felonies, then other felonies)
Strengthened confidentiality rules, adding requirements that receiving agencies destroy samples when notified of a conviction reversal
Required post-disclosure notification — OSP must notify any agency that received a sample if the underlying conviction is reversed
Appropriated $400,000 from the General Fund to OSP for DNA collection and analysis implementation
2014 SB 1548 Ch. 45.
A technical conforming amendment within a broad health care practitioner licensing omnibus bill (“Relating to mid-level health care practitioners”). Section 23 amended ORS 137.076(3)(a) to expand the list of licensed professionals authorized to draw blood samples for DNA collection purposes, adding physician assistants (licensed under ORS 677.505–677.525) and nurses broadly (licensed under ORS chapter 678) alongside the existing authorized practitioners (physicians and persons under physician direction). No change to who must provide samples or which offenses are covered.
No program or law identified.
No formal program or law identified, but evidence of use in cold case unit.
Washington County, Oregon received a grant to collect LODNA, which it completely in 2024.
It looks like it is the only county in the state that received funding and/or that works on LODNA.
Washington County also ran a LODNA project on a FY2018 SAKI grant ($974,066). SAKI grantee table
No program or law found.