We brought The Bulletin Editorial Board’s Official Applause Meter — the editorial writer’s smartphone — to hear the discussion of state Sen. Tim Knopp and state Reps. Emerson Levy and
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