{"id":161493,"date":"2026-02-03T05:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161493\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:55:51","slug":"city-of-shafter-plans-to-relocate-police-department-to-former-correctional-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161493\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Shafter plans to relocate police department to former correctional facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The City of Shafter&#8217;s council agenda for Tuesday includes plans to convert a former correctional facility into a new police department. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE: KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7dfe355d-5868-495f-a7b0-8997d611cd95-SM3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This project is expected to cost $200,000 and will encompass both short-term and long-term renovations of the former Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility (MCCF).  The <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/shafters-old-prison-gets-new-life-as-haunted-house-for-harvest-fest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">facility closed in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short-term plans involve creating a temporary administrative office space for the city&#8217;s Information Technology (IT) staff, while the long-term plans include a complete remodel of the entire facility.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cf586f34-af61-4e44-ade2-e487b89d995b-SM4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The City Manager is set to approve purchases and construction contracts for the work within the approved budget.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Shafter Police Department headquarters is currently located on Central Valley Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The City of Shafter&#8217;s council agenda for Tuesday includes plans to convert a former correctional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-161493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}