{"id":1063723,"date":"2021-10-05T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1063723"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:46:02","slug":"interim-constable-appointed-for-smith-county-precinct-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1063723","title":{"rendered":"Interim constable appointed for Smith County Precinct 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/Shawn-Scott-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1063724\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court has appointed Shawn Scott, a retired law enforcement officer and security company executive, as interim Precinct 2 constable. Officials say Precinct 1 Commissioner Neal Franklin serves the same area as the Precinct 2 constable, so he led the search. According to a news release, Scott will begin serving as soon as he takes the oath of office and meets the bonding requirements. He&#8217;ll fill the post until a new constable takes office following next year&#8217;s election. Former Precinct 2 Constable Josh Black was removed from office after being found guilty of official oppression. He&#8217;s now serving time for that offense.  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/672\/97\">here<\/a> for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court has appointed Shawn Scott, a retired law enforcement officer and security company executive, as interim Precinct 2 constable. Officials say Precinct 1 Commissioner Neal Franklin serves the same area as the Precinct 2 constable, so he led the search. According to a news release, Scott will begin serving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1063723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interim constable appointed for Smith County Precinct 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1063737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/Shawn-Scott-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Interim constable appointed for Smith County Precinct 2","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 13:25:39","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\/10\/Shawn-Scott-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Interim constable appointed for Smith County Precinct 2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063723","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063735,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063723\/revisions\/1063735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}