Jones

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ISAAC JONES, Case No. 3:21-cv-06017-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 18 COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, et al., Defendants.

12 Plaintiff Isaac Jones was assaulted by another detainee while in pretrial custody of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office (the “Sheriff’s Office”). He alleges that the assaulter had previously attacked other detainees for no reason while in Sheriff’s Office custody. He sued the County of San Mateo (the “County”) and three of the facility’s officials for violating his constitutional right to be free from violence by other detainees. The County and two of the officials move to dismiss. The motion is denied when it comes to the claim against the individual defendants: Jones has adequately pleaded that they knew or should have known of the risk to him and exposed him to it anyway. The claim against the County is dismissed with leave to amend so that Jones can adequately plead the existence of an unconstitutional policy or…