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Police issue few tickets under new drug decriminalization law; most people ignore court, hotline - OregonLive

Police issue few tickets under new drug decriminalization law; most people ignore court, hotline

Josephine County is one of the few communities where police have adapted to the new system, topping the list for issuing the most tickets. The southern Oregon county’s statistics are driven by the Grants Pass Police Department, which says it has handed out about 250 tickets to date, according to the agency. Grants Pass Capt. Todd Moran, shown here, said about 35 people have received multiple citations in the working class city of nearly 40,000. People who get the tickets generally understand they don’t face a consequence for failing to follow up, Moran said. “They give them the citation and they’re gone,” he said.

GRANTS PASS -- Nine months into the nation’s first-of-its-kind experiment to decriminalize hard drugs, the new approach has done little so far to connect people with treatment even as statistics show the state is on track to reach a record for opiate-related overdose deaths.

Since Measure 110 went into effect in February, arrests for drug possession have plummeted across Oregon from a daily average of about 1,200 to 200. This year’s arrests tend to be for dealer quantities, state officials said.

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