PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — It's been one month since Oregon's new drug possession charge took affect and since most counties have been operating a deflection program. The state has devised a data ...
Tell Steve Yamamori that Multnomah County spent more than $3 million renovating an old print warehouse to turn it into a drug-crime deflection center, and his eyebrows rise. Yamamori is president of ...
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 ...