Kiokun v. State, Department of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statute stating Department \may\ organize search party when person is lost is permissive and does not require search
• holding that state troopers' decision whether to undertake a search and rescue operation was immune because it involved balancing of \public safety objectives and the allocation of resources\
• finding that state troopers’ decision whether to launch a search and rescue effort was immune because it was based on resource allocation and public policy considerations
• finding that state troopers' decision whether to launch a search and rescue effort was immune because it was based on resource allocation and public policy considerations
• proceeding directly to immunity because that analysis \illustrates the public policy issues that would also bear on a duty analysis\
• “[T]he decision whether to initiate a search and rescue operation remains one of policy. Some, although not necessarily all, decisions made after a search and rescue is commenced may be operational.”

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