{"id":1440437,"date":"2025-09-08T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1440437"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:52:41","slug":"smith-county-da-jacob-putman-announces-re-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1440437","title":{"rendered":"Smith County DA Jacob Putman announces re-election bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1440438\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jacob-210x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jacob-210x200.jpg 210w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jacob-368x350.jpg 368w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jacob.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County Criminal District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JacobPutmanforDA\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JacobPutmanforDA\">Jacob Putman<\/a> announced this week that he will be running for re-election in 2026. According to our news partner KETK, Putman has served for the past six years, and during his tenure, the district attorney\u2019s office has expanded from 48 to 85 staff members. In 2024, Putman and his office prosecuted over 7,000 criminal cases, including 4,472 misdemeanors and 2,886 felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the number of cases prosecuted in 2024, the attorney\u2019s office was named a Gold Level Agency, the highest award a victim-friendly practice can obtain from the Texas Victim Services Association.<\/p>\n<p>Putman will run in next year\u2019s Republican Primary ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County Criminal District Attorney Jacob Putman announced this week that he will be running for re-election in 2026. According to our news partner KETK, Putman has served for the past six years, and during his tenure, the district attorney\u2019s office has expanded from 48 to 85 staff members. In 2024, Putman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1440437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County DA Jacob Putman announces re-election bid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1440438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Jacob-210x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 20:55:03","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\/09\/Jacob-210x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440437","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440464,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440437\/revisions\/1440464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}