{"id":38340,"date":"2026-08-19T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=38340"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:11:57","slug":"planning-for-justice-center-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/planning-for-justice-center-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for justice center begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision has been made by Adams County leaders to build a new justice center in downtown Decatur and to remodel the inside of the Adams County Courthouse to better suit today&#8217;s needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now comes the paperwork and planning to get the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County Engineer Nate Rumschlag has been chosen to oversee the planning as the project&#8217;s administrator.  He spoke at length with the Commissioners during Tuesday&#8217;s meeting about the process of hiring contractors and moving forward with the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioners President Steve Bailey told WZBD&#8217;s Ed Thurman that there&#8217;s a lot of work to do behind the scenes before the construction can actually begin&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/newsBAILEY819.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailey says the process is slow, but it will be worth it for Adams County in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision has been made by Adams County leaders to build a new justice center in downtown Decatur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-38340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/adams-county-courthouse.jpg?fit=640%2C765&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38342,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340\/revisions\/38342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}