El Paso County v. Solorzano

OPINION

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Chief Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the County of El Paso from the denial of its plea to the jurisdiction of Laura Solorza-no’s claims under the Texas Tort Claims Act, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for personal injury.

In February 2006, Daniel Reyes was a participant in the Samuel F. Santana Challenge Boot Camp Program while under the custody of the El Paso County Juvenile Probation Department (“the Department”). 1 On March 6, 2006, Mr. Reyes reported to Challenge Officer Kanaan Pitts that…