{"id":315002,"date":"2026-05-30T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:28:08","slug":"lawsuit-against-city-of-el-paso-and-former-zoo-director-dismissed-by-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315002\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit against City of El Paso and former zoo director dismissed by agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A lawsuit against the City of El Paso and the former El Paso Zoo director has been dismissed. <\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the lawsuit that former El Paso Zoo employee Anahi Chavez Villegas filed against the City, her then supervisor, John Kiseda, human resources employee Tracy Chavarria and former El Paso Zoo director Joseph Montisano was dismissed May 5.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Villegas and the defendants agreed to the dismissal as they have &#8220;reached a compromise resolving all issues between them in this matter,&#8221; the document reads, adding that each party will cover their own costs.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-zoo-director-joe-montisano-placed-on-temporary-administrative-leave-by-city?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Zoo Director Joe Montisano placed on temporary administrative leave by city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it was reported back in September 2025, Villegas alleged she was sexually harassed by her then-supervisor Kiseda, adding accusations that Montisano and Chavarria knew about it and failed to take action according to their leadership roles in the Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/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 A lawsuit against the City of El Paso and the former El Paso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-315002","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\/315002","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=315002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}