Police and Correctional Activities
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810–998 (301 sections).
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Martinez v. California (1980)
Most recently applied in Estate of Garcia Toribio v. City of Santa Rosa (April 2019)
Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1099.
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.
Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for:
(a) Any injury resulting from determining whether to parole or release a prisoner or from determining the terms and conditions of his parole or release or from determining whether to revoke his parole or release.
(b) Any injury caused by:
(1) An escaping or escaped prisoner;
(2) An escaping or escaped arrested person; or
(3) A person resisting arrest.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.