Don’t you have anything in the us to make the employees who made those decisions liable after the judiciary rule that the state was wrong?
As a public worker in brazil, i have qualified immunity, because my actions as an employee are considered as a state action and the wronged person has to sue the state to reverse it.
However, it doesn’t exempt me from any responsibility to reimburse the state for any damages and it would trigger other punishments, as being fired.
On the other hand, it protect me against frivolous and SLAPP lawsuits that would make my work much more slow and defensive.
My perception is that it is extremely abused in the us and it seems easier to get rid of all of it instead of fixing it, but it seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me, and it would make the work of good public employees much harder.
