{"id":851508,"date":"2020-02-07T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=851508"},"modified":"2020-02-08T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:50:07","slug":"smith-county-check-up-on-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=851508","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Check Up on Sex Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/11\/sheriff-smithcounty-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-833865\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has completed a sex offender residence compliance check. On Friday, Investigator JeriLynn Scott told KTBB, &#8220;there are 404 sex offenders that are registered in Smith County. Of the 404 individuals investigated Wednesday and Thursday; 399 were in compliance, 4 received a door hanger and 1 was found to be out of compliance.&#8221; Scott continued, &#8220;the verification checks are unannounced and are important because the more offenders know that they are being watched, there is less of a chance of them having a new victim.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The checks included approximately 30 officers, including members of different local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, coordinated with the U.S. Marshals Service Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force. &#8220;Verification checks send a message to all sex offenders that they will be arrested if they are out of compliance with their sex offender registration requirements,&#8221; said Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith. &#8220;An offender has strict requirements. If they violate any of their sex offender registration requirements, a warrant will be issued for their arrest.&#8221; According to Sheriff Smith, &#8220;It took two days to conduct this verification check, but it took a lot of hours of planning and coordination to make it happen. Having the right people and the right number of people assigned to this effort was key and I am grateful to each one of them for their hard work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has completed a sex offender residence compliance check. On Friday, Investigator JeriLynn Scott told KTBB, &#8220;there are 404 sex offenders that are registered in Smith County. Of the 404 individuals investigated Wednesday and Thursday; 399 were in compliance, 4 received a door hanger and 1 was found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=851508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Check Up on Sex Offenders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":833865,"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-851508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 13:24:07","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\/851508","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851531,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851508\/revisions\/851531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/833865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}