Recording a session in Oregon.

The statute Oregon Revised Statutes 165.540

Section 165.540 is the only statute on this list that gives a different answer for a room and for a phone. For an in person conversation Oregon requires that all participants be specifically informed that the conversation is being obtained, which is a notice rule rather than a consent rule and is stricter about how the notice is given than most states are. For a telephonic communication Oregon follows the one party rule, so a practitioner recording their own call is inside the law. A video call sits between the two and should be treated as the room.

If you work in a room in Oregon, say it out loud and wait for a nod you can see. If you work on the phone, you are covered by your own agreement, and saying it anyway is what a client expects from somebody they are paying to help them.

Oregon's privacy act gives residents the right to obtain a list of the specific third parties to whom their data has been disclosed, which no other state statute requires and which is worth knowing if a client asks. It also treats data revealing health status as sensitive and requires consent before it is processed, which reaches a health or nutrition practice whose reports describe a client's condition.