Liability of Public Employees
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810 to 998.3 (301 sections).
Applied in 42 court decisions — leading case 27 Cal. 4th 1112 - Zelig v. County of Los Angeles (2002)
Most recently applied in 248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 522 - People v. Perry (June 2019)
Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Except as otherwise provided by statute (including Section 820.2), a public employee is liable for injury caused by his act or omission to the same extent as a private person.
(b) The liability of a public employee established by this part (commencing with Section 814) is subject to any defenses that would be available to the public employee if he were a private person.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.