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,” ...

Law enforcement officers arrested four people in Multnomah County Sunday under Oregon’s new law that restored criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of drugs such as fentanyl, heroin and ...

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.

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