Thomas Brewster v. Shasta County, a Public Entity Brad McDannold an Individual D. Compomizzo, an Individual

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• concluding “that the sheriff's department, when investigating crime, acts for the county and therefore the county is subject to section 1983 liability”
• finding 22 that the sheriff acts on behalf of the county when administering county policies
• finding the sheriff acts as a final policymaker for the county when 20 investigating crime within it
• “We are not bound by the determinátion of the California Court of Appeal in Peters that sheriffs are state actors. Questions regarding section 1983 liability implicate federal, not state, law ....”
• “The question is whether he is a policymaker on behalf of the state or the county; if he is a policymaker for the state, then the county cannot be liable for his actions.”
• “the California Constitution clearly identifies the sheriff as a county officer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).