State lawmakers walked back the Measure 110 with House Bill 4002, which prompted 23 counties, including Deschutes and Crook, to be early adopters of what officials call “deflection” programs. Each county has until September to craft its own deflection program that has the goal to alter the traditional course someone suspected of drug possession would take through the criminal justice system.
Plans to shift people suspected of drug possession away from courts and into treatment are beginning to unfold across Oregon after legislators terminated Measure 110, the voter-approved ballot measure from
Plans to shift people suspected of drug possession away from courts and into treatment are beginning to unfold across Oregon after legislators terminated Measure 110, the voter-approved ballot measure from
The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office will not agree to a guilty-plea petition filed this week by a Bend woman charged with manslaughter for a November car crash that killed
A Bend woman asked the Jefferson County Circuit Court on Monday to accept her guilty plea of second-degree manslaughter for a head-on collision that killed three Warm Springs tribal members