State Rep. Dacia Grayber took to social media this week to insist that constituents stay away from her home — and to remind people that doxxing is illegal — after someone showed up at her residence uninvited to talk about a political issue.
“I am sad and frustrated that this has to be stated,” she wrote. “But once again today, I had someone that I do not know show up at my house to share their concern with a policy … While they were polite and respectful, my house is a safe place for my family and I, and it is not where I do business.”
The Democrat — a firefighter who represents District 28, which spreads across parts of Multnomah and Washington counties — added:
“Sharing my address and/or a photo of my home to identify where I live is straight-up illegal. It’s called doxxing, and it’s not okay. Even if it’s done in a ‘private’ social media group or thread. Even if you don’t personally *feel* like you are being threatening.”
She said she makes herself available to constituents and others and embraces “hard” conversations. “Let’s keep that going in ways that are mutually supportive and respectful,” she wrote. “And that is not by showing up unannounced at my home.”
Last year, the Oregon Legislature passed a law that restricts the release of home addresses of public officials. In September, three state legislators in Oregon received bomb threats.
Politics in the U.S. has become increasingly volatile and violent in recent years.
Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated last summer, as was conservative activist Charlie Kirk in a separate shooting. In April, the Pennsylvania governor’s residence was set on fire while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were asleep inside. They escaped without injury.
In 2024, President Donald Trump, then campaigning to return to office, survived an assassination attempt.
Just this week at a town hall in Minnesota, where federal immigration agents this month have killed two protesters, a man attacked U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar with the squirt of a syringe. She was unharmed.
“Threats are not new to me, or other legislators,” Grayber told The Oregonian/OregonLive Friday. “We regularly receive hostile communications via office emails or phone calls, occasionally in person, and often on social media, and thankfully they rarely rise to the level of bodily threats.”
Last year two women seeking to talk about a bill showed up at her house without warning, Grayber said. She said she wasn’t home at the time but her family was.
Grayber, 50, who was first elected to the Oregon House in 2020, has worked on legislation to improve emergency services and wildfire mitigation, and to make naloxone, which helps reverse drug overdoses, more available.
