Vernon

Opinion by Judge WILL.

Plaintiff Robert L. Vernon, retired Assistant Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Council, and the Board of Police Commissioners and its finding that the individual defendants were entitled to immunity as to their actions. Vernon brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , alleging that certain City of Los An-geles officials violated his United States First and Fourteenth Amendment and California state constitutional rights in connection with their investigation of whether his religious views were having an impermissible effect on his on-duty police department performance.

The district court had subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 , 1343(a)(3), and 1367(a). We have jurisdiction over this timely appeal from the final decision of the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants on the plaintiffs state constitutional claims and Free Exercise Clause and Establishment Clause claims. Because we conclude that Vernon’s state and federal constitutional…