Chao

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 SEING CHAO, No. 2:21-cv-01819-MCE-DMC Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER COUNTY OF SHASTA, a municipal corporation; Agent TYLER FINCH, of the Shasta County Interagency Narcotics Task Force; and DOES 1 to 10, inclusive, Defendants. 17 Through the present lawsuit, Plaintiff Seing Chao (“Plaintiff”) alleges that she sustained injuries and damages because of a faulty search warrant obtained by the Shasta Interagency Narcotics Task Force (“SINTF”), a collaborative effort to reduce narcotics within Defendant Shasta County (“County”). According to the currently operative First Amended Complaint (“FAC”), ECF No. 9, SINTF is headed by the County’s Sheriff’s Office and is comprised of representatives from that office, the Shasta County Probation Department, the police departments of the cities of Redding and Anderson, and the California Highway Patrol. FAC, ¶ 6. Plaintiff avers that SINTF “functions as an informal…