What is the test for a municipality's failure to train its employees in the relevant respect of civil rights?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Rojas v. Johnson, Case No.: 3:17-cv-01287-JAH-JMA (S.D. Cal. 2017):

In addition, a municipality's failure to train its employees in a relevant respect must amount to "deliberate indifference to the rights of persons with whom the [untrained employees] come into contact." Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. 51, 60 (2011) (citing Canton, 489 U.S. at 388). "Only then "can such a shortcoming be properly thought of as a city 'policy or custom' that is actionable under 1983." Id. at 61 (citing Canton, 489 U.S. at 389).

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