{"id":44575,"date":"2010-10-13T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44575"},"modified":"2010-10-14T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:06:30","slug":"new-ordinance-for-downtown-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44575","title":{"rendered":"New Ordinance for Downtown Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=44576\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/10\/a_Downtown2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a_Downtown2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44576\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Smith County owns Tyler&#8217;s downtown square. So when business owners around it began noticing an increase in loitering, Tyler P.D. asked the county to do something about it. &#8220;It was really Tyler P.D. that came up with it, but we had our sheriff&#8217;s department do a survey. There were actually people sleeping out there in tents and sleeping bags, so this is our way of protecting our downtown area,&#8221; said County Commissioner JoAnn Hampton. According to KETK, Commissioners passed an ordinance to close the Tyler Square every morning from 1:00 to 5:30, just before dawn. Signs will be posted about the new ordinance and Tyler P.D. will patrol the area and tell people to move along.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Fulsom with PATH says it&#8217;s just punishing the homeless for sleeping. &#8220;Because they now have this ordinance, people could be arrested and placed in what are already overcrowded jail conditions.  I just don&#8217;t think this is the right solution,&#8221; Fulsom said.<\/p>\n<p>The Smith County sheriff&#8217;s office says those patrolling the area will use quote: &#8220;common sense&#8221; when enforcing the ordinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County owns Tyler&#8217;s downtown square. So when business owners around it began noticing an increase in loitering, Tyler P.D. asked the county to do something about it. &#8220;It was really Tyler P.D. that came up with it, but we had our sheriff&#8217;s department do a survey. There were actually people sleeping out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Ordinance for Downtown Square<\/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-44575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 22:59:35","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\/44575","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=44575"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44954,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44575\/revisions\/44954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}