Rent costs Lane County just $577,304 a year, but the rooms do something a $3.2 million deflection center can’t: house people ...

District Attorney Nathan Vasquez announced Tuesday that his office will pursue charges against people caught with drugs who ...

Frustrated with the performance of Multnomah County’s drug-crime deflection center, Commissioner Shannon Singleton proposed a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — New details are emerging about Multnomah County’s proposed deflection center set to open in a couple of weeks, including what defines “deflection.” This all comes following the ...

The center, opened in September 2024, is meant to offer people charged with possession of small amounts of controlled ...

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 ...

The Multnomah County DA says those who fail to complete the county's Deflection Program will soon face criminal penalties.

Throughout his tenure but certainly more often this season, Tom Crean has cited "deflections," a statistic he says helps measure defensive activity. But what are they exactly? “It’s any time you get a ...

Although the pilot is starting small, county officials hope the center can be expanded on site and replicated across the ...

When used in structural engineering, the term deflection refers to load-induced displacement, which typically affects beam designs. It can be an extremely complicated value to calculate when ...

Oregon has ended its experiment with drug decriminalization. Starting Sept. 1, possession of small amounts of illicit substances are once again considered a misdemeanor crime. Earlier this year, state ...