CACI No. 3003

Factual Elements (42 U.S.C. § 1983)

[Name of plaintiff] claims that [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun] was deprived of

[his/her/nonbinary pronoun] civil rights as a result of [name of local

governmental entity]’s failure to train its [officers/employees]. To establish

this claim, [name of plaintiff] must prove all of the following:

1. That [name of local governmental entity]’s training program was

not adequate to train its [officers/employees];

2. That [name of local governmental entity] knew because of a pattern

of similar violations[, or it should have been obvious to it,] that

the inadequate training program was likely to result in a

deprivation of the right [specify right violated];

3. That [name of offıcer or employee] violated [name of plaintiff]’s

right [specify right]; and

4. That the failure to provide adequate training was the cause of the

deprivation of [name of plaintiff]’s right [specify right].

New September 2003; Revised December 2010, December 2011; Renumbered from

CACI No. 3009 December 2012