{"id":297321,"date":"2026-10-01T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297321\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:03:07","slug":"erie-county-courthouse-security-prepared-ahead-of-seelinger-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297321\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Courthouse security prepared ahead of Seelinger trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tensions continue to rise as the trial for former state parole agent, Kevin Seelinger, quickly approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is one of the most high-profile cases that Erie has seen in years and the trial is expected to bring a large turnout, possibly even filling the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Jury selection underway in Seelinger trial;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/jury-selection-underway-in-seelinger-trial\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Jury selection underway in Seelinger trial\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie County officials said they are prepared to manage the amount of attention this trial is expected to bring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been here 30 years; we&#8217;ve had many, many high-profile trials over that time. This one, probably being the most high-profile that I&#8217;ve seen in my career, but as usual, we&#8217;ll handle it and we&#8217;ll take the proper measures necessary to complete this mission,&#8221; said Erie County Sheriff Chris Campanelli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trial of Kevin Seelinger is projected to begin within the next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions continue to rise as the trial for former state parole agent, Kevin Seelinger, quickly approaches. This is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,24813,138,137,42402],"class_list":["post-297321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-county-sheriff","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-kevin-seelinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}