{"id":5886,"date":"2025-10-16T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5886\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:01:06","slug":"castle-hills-settles-free-speech-lawsuit-with-500k-payout-to-former-councilmember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5886\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle Hills settles free speech lawsuit with $500K payout to former councilmember"},"content":{"rendered":"

CASTLE HILLS – Sylvia Gonzalez, a former councilwoman, will receive a $500,000 settlement from the city of Castle Hills, concluding a free speech lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n

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Gonzalez claimed retaliation by the city and Mayor J.R. Trevino after she called for the removal of the city manager, leading to her arrest. <\/p>\n

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While not admitting guilt, Mayor Trevino stated that he and the council have agreed to undergo civil rights training. <\/p>\n

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The settlement funds will be sourced from the city’s insurance, Trevino said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASTLE HILLS – Sylvia Gonzalez, a former councilwoman, will receive a $500,000 settlement from the city of Castle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5757,6082,1931,1932,6081,82,84,83,6080,5759,5758],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-castle-hills","tag-civil-rights-training","tag-free-speech","tag-lawsuit","tag-mayor-j-r-trevino","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-settlement","tag-supreme-court","tag-sylvia-gonzalez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","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=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}