{"id":438839,"date":"2026-09-17T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438839\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:00:27","slug":"meet-the-candidates-for-harris-county-attorney-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438839\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates for Harris County Attorney | Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candidates Abbie Kamin and Jacqueline Lucci Smith are set to face off in November\u2019s election for a chance to lead Harris County\u2019s chief civil law office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

The Harris County Attorney\u2019s Office works on the county\u2019s behalf in civil litigation, also providing legal counsel to county elected officials, employees and departments, according to its website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The office has more than 300 attorneys and staff, per the website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former interim County Attorney Jonathan Fombonne, who was appointed in January<\/a>, stepped down from his role in June. The Harris County Commissioners Court appointed Kamin, a Democrat, to serve as county attorney effective June 15 in a split vote, according to previous Community Impact reporting<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kamin won the Democratic primary election in March, and Lucci Smith advanced without a Republican challenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Early voting begins Oct. 19 and runs through Oct. 30, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s website. Election day is Nov. 3 and polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Registered voters can cast their ballots at any polling location during early voting and election day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines, or for style and clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates Abbie Kamin and Jacqueline Lucci Smith are set to face off in November\u2019s election for a chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6456,409,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-438839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bay-area","tag-election","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438839","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=438839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}