{"id":1420847,"date":"2025-06-20T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1420847"},"modified":"2025-06-23T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:24:14","slug":"city-votes-to-dissolve-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1420847","title":{"rendered":"City votes to dissolve police department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-155132-e1750452751230-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1420848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-155132-e1750452751230-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-155132-e1750452751230-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-155132-e1750452751230.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>HUDSON &#8211; The City of Hudson in Angelina County has dissolved its police department, citing factors like leadership turnover, personnel matters and budget constraints, according to our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was not made lightly and many factors went into this outcome, the most important factor, however, was ensuring that the citizens of the City of Hudson receive access to the best quality law enforcement and emergency services possible,\u201d Hudson city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The city council voted to dissolve the police department in a special meeting on Tuesday. The decision came after city council members gave the department a 90-day grace period to find new leaders, strengthen their internal procedures and make sure their budget was used efficiently.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs that grace period has unfolded, it became clear that the best decision for the city was to temporarily disband the department and receive law enforcement support from the Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Department,\u201d city officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The disbanding of the department means their three officer positions have been eliminated. While the city starts to wind down the department\u2019s affairs, they are developing a more formal agreement with the Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Office to ensure more officer coverage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUDSON &#8211; The City of Hudson in Angelina County has dissolved its police department, citing factors like leadership turnover, personnel matters and budget constraints, according to our news partner KETK. \u201cThe decision was not made lightly and many factors went into this outcome, the most important factor, however, was ensuring that the citizens of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1420847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City votes to dissolve police department<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1420848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-155132-e1750452751230-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 22:22:21","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\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-155132-e1750452751230-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420847","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420847"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421054,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420847\/revisions\/1421054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}