{"id":154661,"date":"2026-04-01T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:43:17","slug":"judge-orders-allentown-to-pay-officer-nearly-100k-in-settlement-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154661\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Allentown to pay officer nearly $100K in settlement | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0 The City of Allentown must pay nearly $100,000 to one of its police officers who claims he was demoted for supporting a co-worker who challenged former Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski.<\/p>\n<p>According to court paperwork, Sergeant Bill Williams was removed from his job as a detective in the Youth Division back in 2017, and re-assigned to a night shift, leaving him without the benefits he was receiving in his prior position.<\/p>\n<p>Williams then sued the city, its former police chief Keith Morris, and Pawlowski.<\/p>\n<p>Williams alleges he was demoted out of retaliation for his association with the colleague who ran against Pawlowski.<\/p>\n<p>A judge has now ordered Allentown to pay more than $97,900 to Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0 The City of Allentown must pay nearly $100,000 to one of its police officers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,70126,28],"class_list":["post-154661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-ed-pawlowski","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}