{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-418.521","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 418.521","heading":"Prohibitions on restraint and involuntary seclusion of child in care.","body":"(1) A child-caring agency, proctor foster home, certified foster home or developmental disabilities residential facility may not place a child in care in a restraint or involuntary seclusion as a form of discipline, punishment or retaliation or for the convenience of staff, contractors or volunteers of the child-caring agency, proctor foster home, certified foster home or developmental disabilities residential facility.\n      (2) Except as provided in ORS 418.523 (4), the use of the following types of restraint of a child in care are prohibited:\n      (a) Chemical restraint.\n      (b) Mechanical restraint.\n      (c) Prone restraint.\n      (d) Supine restraint.\n      (e) Any restraint that includes the intentional and nonincidental use of a solid object, including the ground, a wall or the floor, to impede a child in care’s movement.\n      (f) Any restraint that places, or creates a risk of placing, pressure on a child in care’s neck or throat.\n      (g) Any restraint that places, or creates a risk of placing, pressure on a child in care’s mouth.\n      (h) Any restraint that impedes, or creates a risk of impeding, a child in care’s breathing.\n      (i) Any restraint that involves the intentional placement of any object or a hand, knee, foot or elbow on a child in care’s neck, throat, genitals or other intimate parts.\n      (j) Any restraint that causes pressure to be placed, or creates a risk of causing pressure to be placed, on a child in care’s stomach, chest, joints, throat or back by a knee, foot or elbow.\n      (k) Any other action, the primary purpose of which is to inflict pain.","path":["11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services","34. Human Services; Juvenile Code; Corrections","Chapter 418 — Child Welfare Services"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors418.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:14Z","sha256":"484c2a665fe6912963c6d9145a19f246d052d69116c5441f8b3231a26e060d0e","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-418.520","next":"us-or/ors-418.523"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}