Opinion ID: 6968454
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Heading: Liability of Sheriff Skipper

Text: Canell argues that Sheriff Skipper was responsible for violations of Canell’s constitutional rights because he failed to properly train Officer Lightner. In order to prevail on such a claim, Canell must show that Sheriff Skipper’s failure to train amounted to deliberate indifference. City of Canton v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 388, 109 S.Ct. 1197, 120-05, 103 L.Ed.2d 412 (1989). Canell offered no evidence to refute the defendants’ contentions that the officer training program for Multnomah County taught that preaching and other proselytizing by officers would unlawfully infringe upon the First Amendment rights of the inmates. Because Canell did not raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the training was inadequate or as to whether the inadequacy of training was the result of a ‘deliberate’ or ‘conscious’ choice on the .part of Sheriff Skipper, the district court’s grant of summary judgment was proper. Alexander v. City of San Francisco, 29 F.3d 1355, 1367 (9th Cir.1994).