{"id":472978,"date":"2026-10-22T04:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472978\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T04:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:04:18","slug":"el-paso-county-to-rename-downtown-annex-for-former-county-attorney-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472978\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County to rename downtown annex for former county attorney, senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso County will rename its Downtown County Annex in honor of former County Attorney and Texas state Sen. Jos\u00e9 R. Rodr\u00edguez during a ceremony Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling is scheduled for 3 p.m. Oct. 23 at the annex at 2:30 p.m., according to the county.<\/p>\n<p>The County Commissioners Court approved the renaming July 27. <\/p>\n<p>The building houses the El Paso County Attorney\u2019s Office and the County Auditor\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p>Community donations funded the renaming project and new signage, the county said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez became El Paso County attorney in 1993 and served for 17 years. <\/p>\n<p>He later represented District 29 in the Texas Senate from 2011 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>During nearly three decades in public service, Rodr\u00edguez worked on issues including public safety, education, health care, economic development and environmental protection, according to the county. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/m\/news\/local\/el-paso-county-to-host-trick-or-treat-event-at-courthouse-offices-on-oct-30?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso County to host trick-or-treat event at courthouse offices on Oct. 30<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso County will rename its Downtown County Annex in honor of former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-472978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472978","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=472978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}