Police officers and other first responders sometimes lack good options when they encounter people with substance abuse problems or mental health disorders. This month, the White House introduced a ...
A state grant-making committee voted Thursday against fully funding Clackamas County’s drug deflection program, saying that the program did not meet its standards. “It’s completely unexpected,” ...
Downtown Portland buzzed with a midday blend of construction bangs, the whizz of cars and bikes and office workers stepping outside on a sunny September day for lunch. Portland Police Officer Donny ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – When Oregon’s new drug possession law went into effect on Sunday, it left each county responsible for creating a treatment program that gives those caught with drugs the option ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The countdown is on until Oregon’s new drug law to recriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs takes effect on Sunday. HB 4002 will give people the choice ...
As the start date for Oregon's new law recriminalizing drug possession nears, more than a half dozen counties have not set up programs for people arrested with narcotics to avoid immediate jail time.
PORTLAND, Ore. — In the first two months since simple drug possession was recriminalized in Oregon, officials in Multnomah County say that 91 people were referred to deflection instead of being ...
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