The following excerpt is from Legare v. Cryer, Case No. 1:18-cv-01474-BAM (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2019):
failure amounts to deliberate indifference. See City of Canton, Ohio v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 387-90 (1989). To establish a failure-to-train/supervise claim, a plaintiff must show that "'in light of the duties assigned to specific officers or employees, the need for more or different training [or supervision] [was] obvious, and the inadequacy so likely to result in violations of constitutional rights, that the policy-makers ... can reasonably be said to have been deliberately indifferent to the need.'" Clement v. Gomez, 298 F.3d 898, 905 (9th Cir. 2002) (quoting Canton, 489 U.S. at 390).
Ordinarily, a single constitutional violation by an untrained employee is insufficient to demonstrate deliberate indifference for purposes of failure to train. Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. 51, 62 (2011). Instead, a plaintiff must usually demonstrate "[a] pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained employees," id., unless the need for training is "so obvious" and "so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights," that "the failure to provide proper training may fairly be said to represent a policy for which the city is responsible, and for which the city may be held liable if it actually causes injury," Canton, 489 U.S. at 390.
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