Klimik v. Kent County Sheriff's Department

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Andrew Klimik contacted defendant-appellee Kent County Sheriffs Department (“Department”) on *397November 19, 1999, to complain about a theft) of his personal property. The Department declined to send a patrol car to Klimik’s residence to investigate the complaint because Klimik’s address had been “red-flagged” by the Department as entitled only to emergency service. Klimik filed suit against the Department and then Kent County Sheriff James R. Dougan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that defendants violated Klimik’s Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal…