{"id":164549,"date":"2026-02-05T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164549\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:58:17","slug":"shafter-city-council-approves-200k-remodel-for-police-it-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164549\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHAFTER, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) The Shafter City Council has approved a $200,000 remodel of the former Modified Community Correctional Facility administrative office to accommodate the Shafter Police Department&#8217;s IT team. <\/p>\n<p>The decision, made on Tuesday, aims to provide more space for the department, which was last remodeled in 2008. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ff1ce1b5-20ed-4483-bfc6-9e97b0baeb68-facility.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>Shafter Mayor Chad Givens emphasized the need for additional space to ensure community safety.<\/p>\n<p>Local resident Margarete Acosta, a member of the Shafter Women&#8217;s Club, noted the growing need for more space due to the city&#8217;s expansion. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b6f0aa82-423c-46d4-9784-7a5f5ea6b80c-shafterpc.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>Another resident, Raymond Ybarra, praised the police department&#8217;s efforts, saying, &#8220;I can walk at night, and I don\u2019t worry about anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c47dd825-1c64-40dd-80cd-31abc70b3702-shafter.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shafter City Council approves $200K remodel for police IT team (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>The correctional facility, closed in 2020, has been occasionally used for special events, including a haunted house in 2024. The remodel is expected to offer new opportunities for the police IT department&#8217;s growth and modernization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHAFTER, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) The Shafter City Council has approved a $200,000 remodel of the former Modified Community Correctional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-164549","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\/164549","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=164549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}