{"id":1034549,"date":"2021-07-08T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1034549"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:13:50","slug":"smith-county-da-announced-run-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1034549","title":{"rendered":"Smith County DA announces run for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1034550\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/Jacob-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; On Thursday morning, Smith County Criminal District Attorney Jacob Putman announced his run for re-election. He took office January 1, 2018. In a press release, Putman said his office has made significant strides in improving the office while continuing tough punishments for serious offenders. He went on to list a few of those improvements:<!--more--> Adding a full-time prosecutor to the East Texas Anti-Gang Center. This position works proactively with law enforcement to catch violent gang members in Smith County. Implementing a new digital discovery system to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure accuracy in criminal discovery.Advocating for a new district court for Smith County.<\/p>\n<p>Putman said, &#8220;As your Smith County District Attorney, I will continue to work with law enforcement to keep our community safe, ensure that justice is applied equally to everyone, and uphold the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; On Thursday morning, Smith County Criminal District Attorney Jacob Putman announced his run for re-election. He took office January 1, 2018. In a press release, Putman said his office has made significant strides in improving the office while continuing tough punishments for serious offenders. He went on to list a few of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1034549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County DA announces run for re-election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1034560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/Jacob-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County DA announced run for re-election","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:31:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/Jacob-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County DA announced run for re-election","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034589,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034549\/revisions\/1034589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}