{"id":1458964,"date":"2025-11-18T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1458964"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:37:11","slug":"smith-county-precinct-4-joins-287g-task-force-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1458964","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Precinct 4 joins 287(g) task force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1459026\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/smithcounty-seal-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/smithcounty-seal-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/smithcounty-seal.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 During the Smith County Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday, a motion was passed permitting the Precinct 4 Constable\u2019s Office to join the 287(g) Task Force Model Program. According to our news partner KETK, the motion was approved four to one, with Commissioner Ralph Caraway being the one opposing vote. Caraway stated he opposed allowing Precinct 4 to join the task force, citing his belief that the agreement with the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Precinct 1 said it will not seek to participate in the program.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was well attended , over 40 residents voiced their opinions about the constable\u2019s office joining the task force, causing the public comments portion of the meeting to last for more than an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 During the Smith County Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday, a motion was passed permitting the Precinct 4 Constable\u2019s Office to join the 287(g) Task Force Model Program. According to our news partner KETK, the motion was approved four to one, with Commissioner Ralph Caraway being the one opposing vote. Caraway stated he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1458964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Precinct 4 joins 287(g) task force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1459027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/smithcounty-seal-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458964","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 10:48:22","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\/11\/smithcounty-seal-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458964","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458964"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459719,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458964\/revisions\/1459719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}