The following excerpt is from Heinlen v. Skelton, 909 F.2d 1488 (9th Cir. 1990):
Inadequate training may form the basis for a claim against supervisory personnel "only where the failure to train amounts to deliberate indifference to the rights of persons with whom the [trained personnel] come into contact." City of Canton v. Harris, 109 S.Ct. 1197, 1204 (1989) (defining scope of municipal liability under failure to train theory). "[T]he focus must be on the adequacy of the training program in relation to the tasks the particular officers must perform." Id. at 1205-06.
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