Baker County is preparing to start a program that gives people cited for possession of relatively small amounts of certain drugs a chance to avoid criminal charges if they complete addiction treatment ...
Oregon is rolling out a new deflection model for people caught with small, personal-use amounts of illegal drugs. In 2021, Oregon stopped making it a crime to possess small amounts of drugs meant for ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dozens of people have agreed to deflection rather than going to jail for possessing small amounts of hard drugs in the first two months of Multnomah County’s new program. The ...
BAKER CITY — If Baker County wasn’t the first of Oregon’s 36 counties to use a new state law intended to encourage people to get treatment for drug addiction, it must have been close. The new law that ...