BREAKING: The Nassau County legislature has passed a mask ban.
Here's what you need to know about the bill and your rights:
Here's what you need to know about the bill and your rights:
Even with Nassau's mask ban in place, you are not prohibited from wearing a mask. If you are wearing a mask law enforcement cannot:
❌Make you provide a doctors note proving your disability
❌Force you to disclose private health info
❌Make you take off a religious face covering
❌Make you provide a doctors note proving your disability
❌Force you to disclose private health info
❌Make you take off a religious face covering
The ban’s so-called health and religious exceptions are wholly inadequate: Nassau County police officers are neither health professionals nor religious experts capable of deciding who needs a mask and who doesn’t.
There are already federal statues in place that target people who mask themselves in order to engage in criminal acts.
There's no reason to open up NYers to dangerous interactions with law enforcement, or in the case of people with disabilities, shut them out from society.
There's no reason to open up NYers to dangerous interactions with law enforcement, or in the case of people with disabilities, shut them out from society.
Criminalizing masks forces those with disabilities or medical conditions, as well as their families and loved ones, to have to decide whether to segregate themselves from public life or endanger their health and even lives.
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