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Los Angeles Sheriff's Department will not be enforcing the county mask mandate.
The agency will ask the community to voluntarily comply with the order, which now requires both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents to wear face masks indoors. California lifted statewide mask mandates for fully vaccinated residents on June 15th as the state began a tiered system of reopening. LA County Department of Public Health announced an updated order which went into effect on Saturday night due to the increasing COVID-19 cases.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva stated "Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear face masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. The underfunded/defunded Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will not expend our limited resources and instead ask for voluntary compliance."
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