{"id":1502958,"date":"2026-05-01T02:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1502958"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:45:41","slug":"officials-visit-school-with-new-vehicle-k-9-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1502958","title":{"rendered":"Officials visit school with new vehicle, K-9 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-01_024326-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1502959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-01_024326-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-01_024326-277x275.jpg 277w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-01_024326.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER \u2013 Smith County Judge Neal Franklin and members of the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office stopped by Bell Elementary School in Tyler on Thursday to chat with local students. As a part of National County Government Month, Franklin and members of the sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s K-9 team showed up outside the school on Thursday with the county\u2019s new Terradyne armored law enforcement vehicle, that students got to look inside of and learn about.<\/p>\n<p>Bell Elementary recently became a partner with Smith County through the new Community Connect Program from the Tyler Area Business Education Council and Tyler ISD. Students also got to meet with the K-9 team, who told them about the work they do and the role that dogs like K-9 Bella serve in law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Smith County Judge Neal Franklin and members of the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office stopped by Bell Elementary School in Tyler on Thursday to chat with local students. As a part of National County Government Month, Franklin and members of the sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s K-9 team showed up outside the school on Thursday with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1502958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials visit school with new vehicle, K-9 team<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1503238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-01_024326-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502958","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 08:14:00","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\/2026\/05\/2026-05-01_024326-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502958","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=1502958"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503451,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502958\/revisions\/1503451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}