{"id":17572,"date":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-supervision-of-antioch-police-department-lifted-after-text-message-scandal\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","slug":"federal-supervision-of-antioch-police-department-lifted-after-text-message-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-supervision-of-antioch-police-department-lifted-after-text-message-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal supervision of Antioch Police Department lifted after text message scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department has released Antioch\u2019s Police Department from supervision, its chief said, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2023\/08\/18\/a-dark-day-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-indicted-for-civil-rights-violation-other-charges\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">racist text message scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Joe Vigil said federal officials determined the city and department was in \u201csubstantial compliance\u201d with requirements of a 2025 memorandum of agreement pledging constitutional, bias-free and community-oriented policing.<\/p>\n<h3>Continue reading for<strong> FREE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>This is NOT a paywall.<\/strong> We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional roundup in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department has released Antioch\u2019s Police Department from supervision, its chief said, after a racist text message scandal.<br \/>\n Chief Joe Vigil said federal officials determined the city and department was in \u201csubstantial compliance\u201d with requirements of a 2025 memorandum of agreement pledging constitutional, bias-free and community-oriented policing.<br \/>\n Continue reading for FREE This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional roundup in your inbox.<br \/>\n \t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tSuccess! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>\nPlease visit My Account to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}