{"id":19144,"date":"2010-07-09T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2010-07-11T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:45:17","slug":"city-ordinance-to-curb-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=19144","title":{"rendered":"City Ordinance to Curb Prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/07\/prostitution-200x129.jpg\" alt=\"Prostitution\" title=\"Prostitution\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19151\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Prostitution is a growing problem for one East Texas city and local business owners are fed up with it. Longview leaders are hoping a new ordinance will help police crack down. Longview Public Information Officer, Kevin Brownlee says for prostitutes that have been arrested and convicted in the last year for prostitution, if they&#8217;re found on the streets or in public flagging down motorists for the purpose of engaging in prostitution, they can be arrested and charged with a class c misdemeanor for violation of the city ordinance. Brownlee says it&#8217;s a combined community effort. According to KETK, the ordinance was passed Thursday night and is effective immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Prostitution is a growing problem for one East Texas city and local business owners are fed up with it. Longview leaders are hoping a new ordinance will help police crack down. Longview Public Information Officer, Kevin Brownlee says for prostitutes that have been arrested and convicted in the last year for prostitution, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=19144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City Ordinance to Curb Prostitution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 06:13:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19426,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}