{"id":1064557,"date":"2021-10-08T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1064557"},"modified":"2021-10-09T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:02:53","slug":"interim-constable-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1064557","title":{"rendered":"Interim constable sworn in"},"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; Smith County Precinct 2 has a new interim constable. Shawn Scott was sworn in to office Friday morning by Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Judge Andy Dunklin. Scott is a retired law enforcement officer and security company executive who was recently appointed by the Commissioners Court. According to press materials, Scott will 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Precinct 2 has a new interim constable. Shawn Scott was sworn in to office Friday morning by Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Judge Andy Dunklin. Scott is a retired law enforcement officer and security company executive who was recently appointed by the Commissioners Court. According to press materials, Scott will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1064557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interim constable sworn in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1064561,"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 sworn in","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064557","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 11:58:20","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 sworn in","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064557","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=1064557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064559,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064557\/revisions\/1064559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}