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 ...

While some proposals under consideration are for greater accountability, others aim to better set participants up for success ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — One way or another, changes are coming for Multnomah County's drug deflection program — though the details may depend on how much the county's district attorney and commissioners can ...

Multnomah County’s multimillion-dollar effort to direct people caught with small amounts of drugs toward treatment served a total of eight people in the five days since it launched, county leaders ...

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 ...

Leaders from Multnomah County and the city of Portland outlined their plans Wednesday to address drug possession after a new criminal charge goes into effect statewide in September. “We must offer ...

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.

Oregon will soon end its nearly four-year experiment with drug decriminalization. Beginning Sept. 1, possession of small amounts of drugs will again be a misdemeanor crime. A key part of the change is ...

Pointing a finger at the other is a curious and persistent defense mechanism for the guilty. We try to teach our kids not to tattle, but also to be true to themselves. But sometimes the tattling is a ...