(Salem, OR) -- After initially denying Clackamas County's proposal for a deflection program, the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission has approved funding. The denial was out of concern that is was structured like a diversion program, where a person caught with illegal drugs is sentenced to treatment. A deflection program allows the person to go into treatment without it going on their criminal record. Clackamas County will receive nearly one-million-dollars to set up its deflection program.