{"id":290432,"date":"2026-05-13T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290432\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:26:08","slug":"lubbock-law-enforcement-citizens-academy-accepting-applications-for-fall-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290432\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Law Enforcement Citizens Academy accepting applications for fall class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Law Enforcement Citizens Academy is now accepting applications for the fall 2026 class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The free course is designed to give citizens a close-up look at local law enforcement. The class meets each Tuesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students will learn about the agencies that serve Lubbock, tour facilities, meet with officers from specialized units and have the opportunity to join patrol on a ride-along.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Instructors are from the Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Lubbock Police Department, the Department of Public Safety and the Lubbock County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Classes start Wednesday, Aug. 18 and run until Tuesday, Oct. 20 with a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Interested students are asked to commit to attending all 10 weeks. Space is limited to the first 25 qualified applicants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Qualified applicants are those above the age of 18 with a valid driver\u2019s license who have passed a background check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Apply at: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/89gFk64xUxr8caWW9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/89gFk64xUxr8caWW9<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For questions about this year\u2019s academy, contact Cpl. Tracie Manthei at 806-775-1496 or TManthei@LubbockCounty.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Law Enforcement Citizens Academy is now accepting applications for the fall 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[82412,319,106229,66,1739,168,106228,19888,170,169,3605],"class_list":["post-290432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-citizen-police-academy","tag-kcbd","tag-law-enforcement-training-lubbock","tag-local","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-citizens-academy","tag-lubbock-county-sheriffs-office","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432","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=290432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}