Telephone records protection (pretexting) law
OK Telephone Records Act
Communications · Data security
Criminalizes obtaining, selling, or receiving a person's call records without the customer's authorization or through fraud or pretexting. Telephone companies must maintain reasonable procedures to protect records, which is satisfied by good-faith compliance with the federal CPNI rules.
- Where
- Oklahoma
- Citation
- 21 O.S. §§ 1742.1-1742.4
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2006-11-01
- Last amended
- 2026-01-01
- Enforced by
- District attorneys (criminal); Attorney General (Consumer Protection Act)
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- Felony graded by number of records (Class D1 for one record up to Class B3, up to 20 years, for more than ten), forfeiture, and mandatory restitution; each violation is also an Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act unlawful practice. No private right of action.
- Applies to
- Any person who procures, sells, or receives telephone records of Oklahoma residents
- Telephone companies (wireline, wireless, VoIP, and others) maintaining telephone records of Oklahoma residents
Practices it requires
- Do not knowingly procure, sell, or receive an Oklahoma resident's telephone records without the customer's authorization or by fraudulent, deceptive, or false means.21 O.S. § 1742.2(A)
Security duties
- Telephone companies must establish reasonable procedures to protect telephone records against unauthorized or fraudulent disclosure; good-faith compliance with 47 U.S.C. § 222 and FCC CPNI rules is deemed reasonable.21 O.S. § 1742.4(A)
Sources
- Official text
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 21 (complete title PDF, Oklahoma Legislature, compiled Dec. 2025), §§ 1742.1-1742.4
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Research reference, not legal advice.