Overview

• A dismissal hearing is scheduled for Thursday after the district attorney’s office notified Maurice Monk’s relatives of the plan.
• Three defendants will remain charged, according to the family’s account of the DA’s briefing.
• The original 2024 filing by former DA Pamela Price charged nine deputies and two medical professionals with felony dependent‑adult abuse.
• Body‑camera video shows staff opened Monk’s cell for days without entering as he lay motionless, and an internal inquiry found falsified welfare‑check logs.
• The family received $7 million from Alameda County and a June settlement from Wellpath reported between $2.3 million and $2.5 million, while audits faulted Wellpath’s care and the sheriff instituted new welfare‑check protocols and electronic tracking.