California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Koepke v. Loo, 18 Cal.App.4th 1444, 23 Cal.Rptr.2d 34 (Cal. App. 1993):
Yet another similar case is Thompson v. County of Alameda (1980) 27 Cal.3d 741, 167 Cal.Rptr. 70, 614 P.2d 728. There the county was found to have no duty to warn unidentified neighbors of the release of a dangerous juvenile to the custody of his mother. The court was concerned about the detriment to parole and probation programs which might result from the imposition of such a generalized duty, and noted that the danger was evidenced only by "nonspecific threats of harm directed at nonspecific victims. " (Id. at p. 754, 167 Cal.Rptr. 70, 614 P.2d 728, emphasis in original.)
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