{"id":1204914,"date":"2023-02-23T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204914"},"modified":"2023-02-24T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:48:41","slug":"gregg-county-sheriffs-office-reports-major-staffing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204914","title":{"rendered":"Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reports major staffing shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/gregg-county-sheriff-175x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1204920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/gregg-county-sheriff-175x134.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/gregg-county-sheriff-458x350.jpg 458w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/gregg-county-sheriff.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office says it is facing a severe staffing crisis. According to our news partner KETK, the sheriff&#8217;s office currently has about 40 vacancies, creating a need for extra overtime work.  Many people left their jobs when the COVID-19 pandemic started and have not come back. Chief Deputy Craig Harrington also says people aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t applying for other personal reasons. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a job you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna get in and be rich and is a job that oftentimes folks aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t praised for, they are criticized for being in,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Harrington. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office says it is facing a severe staffing crisis. According to our news partner KETK, the sheriff&#8217;s office currently has about 40 vacancies, creating a need for extra overtime work. Many people left their jobs when the COVID-19 pandemic started and have not come back. Chief Deputy Craig Harrington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reports major staffing shortage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1204923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/gregg-county-sheriff-175x134.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office reports major staffing shortage","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 17:22:46","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\/2023\/02\/gregg-county-sheriff-175x134.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office reports major staffing shortage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204914","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=1204914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204921,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204914\/revisions\/1204921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}