{"id":143181,"date":"2026-01-29T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143181\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:04:26","slug":"volunteers-fill-lubbock-sidewalk-gaps-with-blue-sand-to-raise-human-trafficking-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143181\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers fill Lubbock sidewalk gaps with blue sand to raise human trafficking awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Blue sand now fills gaps in sidewalks across Lubbock, representing advocates who support survivors of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Volunteers for the Texas Blue Sand Project added the reminder to sidewalks in south Lubbock on Thursday. The work took place outside the United at 113th St. and Slide Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The statewide effort reminds residents that human trafficking happens everywhere, including on the South Plains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The campaign includes a new element this year with informational stickers placed in bathrooms at United stores. The stickers are designed to spread awareness and share information that could help or save victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Blue sand now fills gaps in sidewalks across Lubbock, representing advocates who support survivors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4121,60063,6974,319,66,168,170,169,223,56217],"class_list":["post-143181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-awareness","tag-blue-sand","tag-human-trafficking","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-texas-blue-sand-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}