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,

The lawyer representing a preschool near Multnomah County's planned deflection center is "disappointed" after learning a judge rejected his bid to stop the facility from opening on Monday.

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.

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.

Multnomah County’s Southeast Portland facility designed to connect people caught with small amounts of hard drugs to services and treatment will open Oct. 14, following a six-week delay, officials said Monday.

Multnomah County announced on Monday that the Coordinated Care Pathway Center will open on Monday, October 14.

Multnomah County plans to open its deflection center for people arrested for drug possession on Oct. 14, without a so-called good neighbor agreement in place to guarantee conduct of operations there, according to a letter from County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson obtained by WW.