A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his adoption of or failure to adopt an enactment or by his failure to enforce an enactment.
Cal. Gov. Code § 821
Liability of Public Employees
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810 to 998.3 (301 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 40 Cal. 3d 202 - Clemente v. State of California (1985)
Most recently applied in People ex rel. Harris v. Rizzo (March 2013)
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.