{"id":458685,"date":"2026-10-07T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458685\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:44:07","slug":"hundreds-come-out-to-celebrate-midtowns-22nd-national-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458685\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds come out to celebrate Midtown\u2019s 22nd National Night Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Hundreds of people came out to Midtown\u2019s Bagby Park to celebrate National Night Out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">There was food, music, raffle ticket drawings and even a hula hooping contest for children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The event drew in elected officials and law enforcement agencies from Houston Police Department, Harris County Constable Precinct 7, SWAT, Metro Police and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cI think what makes our National Night Out so special is how we engage with our local businesses, our community partners and our law enforcement,\u201d said Madison Walkes, the Director of People and Engagement at Midtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Leaders who made remarks include State Representative Jolanda Jones, Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz and Precinct 7 Constable Smokie Phillips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cWe all work together to service Midtown,\u201d said Sharita Bohanna, the Manager of Public Safety and Quality of Life at Midtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Midtown Houston also has a homeless outreach team as well as a mental health team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">This was Midtown\u2019s 22nd National Night Out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The event was the last for Jaime Giraldo, the director of Public Safety at Midtown Houston, who announced he is retiring at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Hundreds of people came out to Midtown\u2019s Bagby Park to celebrate National Night Out. There was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,21071,54867],"class_list":["post-458685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-midtown","tag-national-night-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458685","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=458685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}