{"id":79627,"date":"2011-03-19T07:44:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T12:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=79627"},"modified":"2011-03-21T02:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:35:30","slug":"phillips-guilty-of-improper-visual-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=79627","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Phillips Reacts to Son&#8217;s Guilty Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/19\/phillips-guilty-of-improper-visual-recording\/lance-phillips\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/Lance-Phillips-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lance Phillips\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-79628\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2013 Smith County Commissioner Terry Phillips is offering a brief response after his son Lance (pictured) got probation in a visual recording case.  According to KETK, the elder Phillips did not want to go on camera, but he says in a statement: &#8220;The court handed down the sentence they thought was appropriate. Now, it&#8217;s time for my son to abide by the court&#8217;s decision. No matter what, we stand by our son and love him.&#8221;  He also says his son&#8217;s actions will not affect the way he serves the county.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Lance Phillips of Tyler pleaded guilty to improper visual recording with intent to gratify.  Phillips, 27, was sentenced to two years in prison; that sentence was suspended, and he was given 5 years probation. Phillips turned himself in to authorities in March of last year. A woman had found a hidden camera in her bedroom. Other electronic devices were also located. She said the camera had been placed there by Phillips, who was her landlord.  Phillips&#8217;s mother is County Clerk Karen Phillips.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Smith County Commissioner Terry Phillips is offering a brief response after his son Lance (pictured) got probation in a visual recording case. According to KETK, the elder Phillips did not want to go on camera, but he says in a statement: &#8220;The court handed down the sentence they thought was appropriate. Now, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=79627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commissioner Phillips Reacts to Son&#8217;s Guilty Plea<\/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-79627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 21:11:25","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\/79627","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=79627"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80025,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79627\/revisions\/80025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}