Judge drops charge against former state director who pleaded guilty to child assault 

A Marion County Circuit Court judge has dismissed a criminal charge against the former executive director of the state Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission who pleaded guilty last year to assaulting a boy in a Salem after-school program.

Reginald Richardson, 63, entered the pleain October 2022 for grabbing the 8-year-old boy by the back of his neck and shoving him into a wall for repeatedly being disruptive in class. He had since been on…