(PC) Brookshire v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LARRY JAMES BROOKSHIRE, No. 2:23-cv-2001 CSK P Plaintiff, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

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SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a county jail inmate proceeding pro se. On May 3, 2024, plaintiff filed a second amended complaint. (ECF No. 13.) In his fourth claim, plaintiff alleges that he submitted multiple grievances, but Sacramento County Jail staff returned his grievances with no response, and despite his complaints to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department Professional Standards Division, plaintiff did not receive an interview on his allegations included in his grievances or on his complaints to the Professional Standards Division. Plaintiff contends that jail staff’s failure to properly handle his grievances violated his right to Fourteenth Amendment due process. (ECF No. 13 at 8.) The Due Process Clause protects plaintiff against the deprivation of liberty without due 26 …