{"id":103724,"date":"2011-06-23T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=103724"},"modified":"2011-06-25T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T12:47:38","slug":"jb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=103724","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Fined for Campaign Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=103848\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/06\/J-B-Smith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"J B Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-103848\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2014 According to documents from the Texas Ethics Commission, Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith broke multiple Election Codes and Ethics Commission Rules. The documents state Sheriff Smith did not disclose campaign contributions, file a timely semiannual campaign finance report, or file campaign finance reports correctly; was improperly reimbursed for political expenditures; and used contributions for personal use. Reports show Sheriff Smith used $3,920.36 worth of political contributions for two books, one of which has been published, \u201cThe Christmas Day Murders.\u201d The commission fined Sheriff Smith $1,600 for his violations. Smith wasn\u2019t immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 According to documents from the Texas Ethics Commission, Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith broke multiple Election Codes and Ethics Commission Rules. The documents state Sheriff Smith did not disclose campaign contributions, file a timely semiannual campaign finance report, or file campaign finance reports correctly; was improperly reimbursed for political expenditures; and used contributions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=103724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheriff Fined for Campaign Violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 16:33:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103724","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103724"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104002,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103724\/revisions\/104002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}