Recent changes to Clatsop County’s deflection program are helping open the door for more people to access treatment. The program, not quite 6 months old, is a response to House Bill 4002, which ...

In response to low engagement in Multnomah County’s drug deflection program, District Attorney Nathan Vasquez has announced steep changes. Starting Jan. 5, people that fail to complete the county’s ...

Police massed in a different part of Portland’s city core each day last week in a concentrated effort to stem illegal drug use. Officers over the week took 78 people suspected of possessing small ...

In Clatsop County, seagulls squawk and swoop through the sky as visitors and residents stroll along windswept beaches of the Pacific Ocean. Towering pine trees and craggy peaks dot the landscape. The ...

At a work session Tuesday morning, Multnomah County commissioners deliberated over potential changes to the county's drug deflection regime, a response to the program's lackluster first year. The ...

Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020. The goal was to decriminalize small amounts of street drugs and move users into treatment. That goal was ultimately not realized, and in 2024, the legislature ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — Multnomah County says about 127 people chose deflection services over an arrest for drug possession in the first 10 weeks of the county's program, between Sept. 1 and Nov. 15.

PORTLAND, Ore. — On the corner of Southeast Pine Street and 11th Avenue in Portland’s Central Eastside sits a preschool, where David Watnick’s 1-year-old will start in September the same time ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Those who fail to complete Multnomah County’s Deflection Program will soon face criminal penalties. District Attorney Nathan Vasquez proposed the change on Tuesday after ...