New Court Now Connects Homeless and Services

New Court Now Connects Homeless and Services
	Beginning May 4, Multnomah County will open the first courtroom in a homeless facility.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- On May 4, Multnomah County makes community court history when it opens the first courtroom in a homeless facility. Every Friday afternoon, the Bud Clark Commons in Old Town -- which features a temporary shelter, a day center and 130 permanent apartments for the chronically homeless -- will also host community court Judge Alicia Fuchs presiding over a docket of cases featuring homeless men and women arrested for street crimes. Officials hope bringing the court to a place familiar to many of the defendants will lower the "failure to appear" rate. For the people who provide services at Bud Clark Commons, the Friday courtroom is just one more in a series of novel efforts aimed at attacking homelessness. You can read the rest of the story at PortlandTribune o-_-o

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