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People doing their jobs and receive training should be personally immune from legal liability. That liability should be held by their employer. ...which is ge
by koheripbal 6y ago
People doing their jobs and receive training should be personally immune from legal liability. That liability should be held by their employer.
...which is generally how it works, though it's not as strongly codified as it is with qualified immunity.
If you're saying we should expand qualified immunity, I agree.
- rdtwo 6y agoThe problem comes when the people doing their jobs are also abusing their power for personal gain or vendetta and can’t be punished.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> People doing their jobs and receive training should be personally immune from legal liability. That liability should be held by their employer. They aren’t, outside of government-agent immunities. > ...which is generally how it works, though it's not as strongly codified as it is with qualified immunity No, it is not how it works. The idnividual agent is generally personally liable, but the employer generally is often also liable for the torts of its agents under the principle of respondeat superior, or more directly if it also checks all the boxes for having committed a tort without considering that principle.
- Ceezy 6y agoI think it's more about finding the right middle ground than anything else. So expanding is good if people are still responsible in a way. I agree that a lot of time the institution are liable (mostly for ordering people to achieve impossible target).
- voxic11 6y agoDid you even read the bill? That is exactly what it does > INDEMNIFICATION BY PUBLIC BODY.--A judgment awarded pursuant to the New Mexico Civil Rights Act against a person acting on behalf of, under color of or within the course and scope of the authority of the public body shall be paid by the public body.