{"id":1438301,"date":"2025-08-29T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1438301"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:32:54","slug":"smith-county-clerk-karen-phillips-sentenced-to-30-days-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1438301","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Clerk sentenced to 30 days in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-145409-e1756499229800-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1438302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-145409-e1756499229800-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-145409-e1756499229800-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-145409-e1756499229800.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER \u2013 Smith County Court at Law 2 has confirmed that current Smith County Clerk Karen Phillips has been sentenced to thirty days in jail, according to a report from our news partner KETK. She was first arrested in this case after a March 2023 traffic stop involving her son, Derek Phillips, and man named Cody Voss. <\/p>\n<p>Phillips, 67 of Smith County, was found guilty of interfering with public duties on May 9, 2024 and was originally sentenced to 1 year of probation and 48 hours of community service. On Friday, Phillips relinquished that probation sentence, and was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Smith County Court at Law 2 has confirmed that current Smith County Clerk Karen Phillips has been sentenced to thirty days in jail, according to a report from our news partner KETK. She was first arrested in this case after a March 2023 traffic stop involving her son, Derek Phillips, and man named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1438301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Clerk sentenced to 30 days in jail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1438302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-145409-e1756499229800-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 09:28:40","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\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-145409-e1756499229800-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438301","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=1438301"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439005,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438301\/revisions\/1439005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}