{"id":424743,"date":"2015-12-02T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=424743"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:27:35","slug":"commissioners-discuss-open-carry-in-the-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=424743","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners Discuss Open Carry In The Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/smithcounty-courthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/smithcounty-courthouse-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"smithcounty-courthouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-424744\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County Commissioners met Tuesday and one of the items on the agenda, open carry in the courthouse. The open carry act is effective starting January 1, 2016, but the court still needs to decide whether they will allow guns in the courthouse. Sheriff Larry Smith spoke out saying he believes they should not be allowed in the courthouse. According to KETK, he said he disagrees with Governor Greg Abbott, who has said they cannot be banned from government buildings. Abbott says if a court is inside of a multipurpose building, guns can only be banned from the areas considered premises of the court. Commissioners did not make a decision Tuesday. They said they&#8217;ll await comment by Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County Commissioners met Tuesday and one of the items on the agenda, open carry in the courthouse. The open carry act is effective starting January 1, 2016, but the court still needs to decide whether they will allow guns in the courthouse. Sheriff Larry Smith spoke out saying he believes they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=424743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commissioners Discuss Open Carry In The Courthouse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":424744,"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-424743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 10:29:59","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\/424743","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=424743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424745,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424743\/revisions\/424745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}