The following excerpt is from Turner v. Sacramento City Fire Dep't, No. 2:19-cv-0416 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
(1978). Second, a local government can fail to train employees in a manner that amounts to "deliberate indifference" to a constitutional right, such that "the need for more or different training is so obvious, and the inadequacy so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights, that the policymakers of the city can reasonably be said to have been deliberately indifferent to the need." City of Canton v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 390 (1989). Third, a local government may be held liable if "the individual who committed the constitutional tort was an official with final policy-making authority or such an official ratified a subordinate's unconstitutional decision or action and the basis for it." Gravelet-Blondin v. Shelton, 728 F.3d 1086, 1097 (9th Cir. 2013) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
Plaintiff invokes none of the three grounds for liability against the City of Sacramento.
Accordingly, plaintiff also fails to state a claim against this defendant.
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