Under the “special relationship” doctrine, a public entity has a duty to control persons it has authority to control and a duty to protect foreseeable victims of dangerous persons leaving its custody. See, e.g., Joyce v. Dep’t of Corr., 155 Wn.2d 306, 315-16, 119 P.3d 825 (2005). In other words, a public entity “has a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect against reasonably foreseeable dangers.” Taggart v. State, 118 Wn.2d 195, 217, 822 P.2d 243 (1992). ¶10 Accordingly, a public entity has a “take charge” duty to control parolees, id., mental patients, Petersen v. State, 100 Wn.2d 421, 428-29, 671 P.2d 230 (1983), and others it has authority to control, to the extent it has authority to control them. See, e.g., Couch v. Dep’t of Corr., 113 Wn. App. 556, 571, 54 P.3d 197 (2002) (<HOLDING>). And a public entity has a duty to protect
holding that as a matter of law because enronhas authority and control over appointments of fiduciaries to administer the plan and control its investments it also has a fiduciary duty to monitor its appointees holding that to establish a prima facie case of control person liability a plaintiff must establish that the alleged control person actually participated in ie exercised control over the operations of the primary violator in general internal quotations omitted holding a defendant is liable as a control person if the defendant had the power to control the general affairs of the entity primarily liable at the time the entity violated the securities laws but declining to decide whether power to control means simply abstract power to control or actual exercise of the power to control internal quotations omitted recognizing duty of parent to control conduct of child holding authority to control limits duty to control