Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury resulting from his act or omission where the act or omission was the result of the exercise of the discretion vested in him, whether or not such discretion be abused.
Cal. Gov. Code § 820.2
Liability of Public Employees
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810–998 (301 sections).
Applied in 135 court decisions — leading case 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California (1976)
Most recently applied in Michael Hampton v. State of California (October 2023)
Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.