Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Portland Police Chief Robert Day unveiled the step-by-step process that police in Oregon’s largest city will follow as they attempt to get drug users access to treatment ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Multnomah County deflection center that will serve as a touch point for drug users who wish to avoid jail time and instead opt for addiction treatment is set to open its ...

Earlier this year, Oregon lawmakers passed a bill to implement new criminal penalties for drug possession and end the state’s three-year experiment with drug decriminalization. The legislation also ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It’s been three days since Oregon’s new drug possession law went into effect, leaving the Portland community to wonder: “Is it working?” The new law, House Bill 4002, ...

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 ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — With new drug possession charges scheduled to take effect on Sept 1, Multnomah County officials promise a sobering center will be operational and ready to give people caught with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It’s official: Drug possession is once again illegal in Oregon. The state’s new drug law to recriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs went into effect on ...

I find it strange, given the impeachment process that the defendant and his party are working the deflection wind tunnel to create more of their fog of propaganda, and the constant oppositional ...