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"The mask ban law in Nassau County causes G.B. great stress and fear when they go out into the community. G.B. is afraid of interactions they may have with the police, because they will not remove ...
A proposed new law would come with medical and religious exemptions that would allow people to wear masks. Long Island’s Republican-run Nassau County approved a local last August, and the ...
Police in the suburbs of New York City made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks, officials announced Tuesday. Nassau County Police say officers on Sunday night responded to ...
On August 14, 2024, Blakeman signed into law the Mask Transparency Act, [77] an act introduced by county legislator Mazi Pilip. [78] It was voted on and passed by the legislature on August 5, 2024. [77] The Mask Transparency Act prohibits the usage of a mask or facial covering to conceal one's identity within Nassau County.
In a written statement, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who signed the bill into law on Aug. 14, said county officials are “confident that the law will be upheld as there is ...
In August 2024, Nassau County passed into law a ban on wearing face masks in public, making it a misdemeanor subject to a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison to wear a facial covering in public, a move that was criticized by the New York Civil Liberties Union as a "dangerous misuse of the law to score political points."
The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1, 2020, [2] and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic, with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019. [7]
A teenager was arrested over the weekend in Nassau County, New York, after he was seen wearing a mask in public — the first arrest related to the county's face covering ban signed earlier this ...