{"id":177154,"date":"2026-02-23T23:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177154\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:36:13","slug":"lubbock-county-tightens-game-room-regulations-limits-operating-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177154\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock County tightens game room regulations, limits operating hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock County Commissioners approved new regulations Monday for licensed game rooms, including limits on operating hours and permit transfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Under the new rules, licensed game rooms may only operate during weekday business hours \u2014 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Commissioner Mike Dalby called the change a common sense regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Game room permits can no longer be transferred or divided under the updated rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The county is also forming a \u201cGame Room Hearing Board\u201d to oversee permit disputes. The board will include residents and county officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dalby cited concerns about criminal activity connected to game rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cProstitution&#8230; drug trafficking&#8230; sex trafficking in these game rooms &#8211; that\u2019s not what we want in West Texas. That\u2019s not what I want. That\u2019s not what our citizens want, and if I can do something to make it more restrictive, I\u2019m darn sure going to do it,\u201d Dalby said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The District Attorney\u2019s Office said current regulations have already helped cut down on crime at game rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock County Commissioners approved new regulations Monday for licensed game rooms, including limits on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[71301,71298,319,66,168,71297,71300,170,169,2442,71299,223,49722],"class_list":{"0":"post-177154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-commissioner-dalby","9":"tag-game-rooms","10":"tag-kcbd","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-county-commissoners","14":"tag-lubbock-county-news","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-meeting","18":"tag-mike-dalby","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-regulations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177154","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=177154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}