Hopkins

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3

KEITH M. HOPKINS,

4 Case No. 18-cv-07190-YGR (PR) Plaintiff, 5 ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITH LEAVE v. TO AMEND 6

G. AHERN, et al.,

7 Defendants. 8

9 I. INTRODUCTION 10 Plaintiff filed this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the 11 Alameda County Sheriff’s Department housed him in constitutionally inappropriate conditions 12 while he was held at Santa Rita Jail (“Santa Rita”) from 2016 through 2018 as a “pre-trial 13 defendant under federal custody.” Dkt. 11 at 4.1 The operative complaint is Plaintiff’s amended 14 complaint. See Dkt. 11. He was previously granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Dkt. 8. 15 Venue is proper because the events giving rise to the claim are alleged to have occurred in Santa 16 Rita, which is located in this judicial district. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b). 17 In his amended complaint, Plaintiff names the following Defendants: Alameda County 18 Sheriff’s Office (“ACSO”) Sheriff Gregory…