{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-51-51-50","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 51, § 51-50","heading":"Short title - Personal Privacy Protection Act –","body":"Restrictions on public agencies – Exemptions – Civil actions -\n\nViolations.\n\nA. This act shall be known and may be cited as the \"Personal\n\nPrivacy Protection Act\".\n\nB. As used in the Personal Privacy Protection Act:\n\n1. \"Personal affiliation information\" means any list, record,\n\nregister, registry, roll, roster or other compilation of data of any\n\nkind that directly or indirectly identifies a person as a member,\n\nsupporter, or volunteer of, or donor of financial or nonfinancial\n\nsupport to, any entity organized pursuant to Section 501(c) of the\n\nUnited States Internal Revenue Code; and\n\n2. \"Public agency\" means any state or local governmental unit,\n\nhowever designated, including, but not limited to, the State of\n\nOklahoma; any department, agency, office, commission, board,\n\ndivision or other entity of the State of Oklahoma, including those\n\ncreated or established pursuant to constitutional provisions; any\n\npolitical subdivision of the State of Oklahoma, including, but not\n\nlimited to, a county, city, township, village, school district,\n\ncommunity college district or any other local governmental unit,\n\nagency, authority, council, board or commission; or any state or\n\nlocal court, tribunal or other judicial or quasi-judicial body.\n\nC. A public agency shall not do any of the following:\n\n1. Require any individual to provide the public agency with\n\npersonal affiliation information or otherwise compel the release of\n\npersonal affiliation information;\n\n2. Require any entity organized pursuant to Section 501(c) of\n\nthe United States Internal Revenue Code to provide the state agency\n\nor political subdivision with personal affiliation information or\n\notherwise compel the release of personal affiliation information;\n\n3. Release, publicize or otherwise publicly disclose any\n\npersonal affiliation information in the possession of the public\n\nagency; or\n\n4. Request or require a current or prospective contractor or\n\ngrantee with the public agency to provide the public agency with a\n\nlist of entities organized pursuant to Section 501(c) of the United\n\nStates Internal Revenue Code to which it has provided financial or\n\nnonfinancial support.\n\nD. Personal affiliation information is exempt from the\n\ndisclosure requirements of the Oklahoma Open Records Act.\n\nE. The Personal Privacy Protection Act shall not preclude any\n\nof the following:\n\n1. Any report or disclosure required by the Oklahoma Ethics\n\nCommission prior to the effective date of this act;\n\n2. Any lawful warrant for personal affiliation information\n\nissued by a court of competent jurisdiction;\n\n3. Any lawful request for discovery of personal affiliation\n\ninformation in litigation if both of the following conditions are\n\nmet:\n\na. the requester demonstrates a compelling need for the\n\npersonal affiliation information requested by clear\n\nand convincing evidence, and\n\nb. the requester obtains a protective order barring\n\ndisclosure of personal affiliation information to any\n\nperson not directly involved in the litigation; or\n\n4. Admission of personal affiliation information as relevant\n\nevidence before a court of competent jurisdiction. However, no\n\ncourt shall publicly reveal personal affiliation information absent\n\na specific finding of good cause.\n\nF. Any person alleging a violation of the Personal Privacy\n\nProtection Act may bring a civil action for appropriate injunctive\n\nrelief, damages, or both injunctive relief and damages. Damages\n\nawarded pursuant to this section may include one of the following,\n\nas appropriate:\n\n1. A sum of money not less than Two Thousand Five Hundred\n\nDollars ($2,500.00) to compensate for injury or loss caused by each\n\nviolation of this act; or\n\n2. For an intentional violation of this act, a sum of money not\n\nto exceed three times the sum described in paragraph 1 of this\n\nsubsection.\n\nG. A court, in rendering judgment in an action brought pursuant\n\nto this section, may award all or a portion of the costs of\nless than Two Thousand Five Hundred\n\nDollars ($2,500.00) to compensate for injury or loss caused by each\n\nviolation of this act; or\n\n2. For an intentional violation of this act, a sum of money not\n\nto exceed three times the sum described in paragraph 1 of this\n\nsubsection.\n\nG. A court, in rendering judgment in an action brought pursuant\n\nto this section, may award all or a portion of the costs of\n\nlitigation, including reasonable attorney fees and witness fees, to\n\nthe complainant in the action if the court determines that the award\n\nis appropriate.\n\nH. A person who knowingly violates this act shall be guilty of\n\na misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not\n\nmore than ninety (90) days or a fine of not more than One Thousand\n\nDollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.","path":["OK Code","Title 51"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os51.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"329e17f38881e9de5f0089add783c1351c7f88878ea2c5da9f2f0f8dd0831f52","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-51-51-5","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-51-51-51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}