![]() ![]() In response, Townsend asked the Court to use its “inherent power” to declare that Telecare was a state actor after all. The County, CFMG and Telecare Corporation filed for summary judgment on both claims, with Telecare arguing it was not a state actor. § 1983 suit for depriving Townsend of constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care, as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and another disability discrimination claim in violation of § 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act (RA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. ![]() The two claims under which relief was sought were first a 42 U.S.C. District Court for the Northern District of California against the County, its Sheriff’s office and jail healthcare contractor California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG), as well as the county’s Health Services Behavioral Health Division, which provides mental healthcare at the jail through its privately contracted operator, Telecare Corporation. Townsend’s grandmother and Guardian ad Litem, Jacqueline Townsend -through her counsel, Pasadena attorneys John Burton and Dana Scruggs III of Cartwright, Scruggs, Fulton & Walther in Santa Cruz-filed suit in U.S. Medical personnel managed to resuscitate him, but he suffered severe brain injury and now requires medical care for the rest of his life. ![]() Another prisoner alerted guards, who cut Townsend down. on February 15, 2017, prisoner Antonio Neal Townsend, 22, attempted to hang himself during his very first hour of dayroom time in the administrative segregation wing of California’s Santa Cruz County jail. On December 16, 2021, a federal court in California approved a $5.5 million settlement between Santa Cruz County and the estate of a former prisoner at the county jail whose attempt on his own life there left him an invalid. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email ![]()
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