Multnomah County Judge David Rees on Friday denied a petition from a local preschool to further delay the county’s deflection center. The center will open Monday as planned. Rees’ decision came following a request from Escuela Viva Community School,

Multnomah County officials and nonprofits that will run the county's deflection center gave the first tour of the building to the media Friday morning. The tour comes as the lawyer for a preschool down the street from the center is scheduled to file a temporary restraining order to stop it from opening.

Lawyers for a Southeast Portland preschool plan on going before a judge to block the planned opening of a Multnomah County deflection center located just a block away from them. Read online:

After weeks of delay, Multnomah County's deflection center is set to open Monday, offering drug users an alternative to criminal charges when caught with hard drugs like fentanyl. Why it matters: The center is a key part of how the county will comply with a law passed this year that rolled back drug decriminalization in the state.

In court papers filed on Friday, preschool owner Angie Garcia said county officials, meeting in secret, had failed to develop plans to safeguard her staff and students from people arrested for possession and taken to the deflection center as an alternative to the criminal justice system.