Category: Indoor mask mandate

Group Urges Los Angeles to End Indoor Masking for Kids Playing Sports at City Facilities

The grassroots organization LA Uprising launched a campaign this week asking Los Angeles city officials to end an ongoing indoor mask mandate for youth sports at city facilities. Group organizer Ross Novie, a father of two Los Angeles public school students, said he started the effort after visiting Mar Vista Recreation Center last weekend and…


City of Torrance Votes ‘No Confidence’ in LA County Public Health Director

TORRANCE, Calif.—City officials passed a vote of no confidence in Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer Aug. 9, saying the restrictions she imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic had violated people’s freedom and hurt businesses in the city. The council voted 4–1 in favor of the item brought forward by Councilman Aurelio Mattucci, with…


LA Unified Scales Back Indoor Masking, Weekly COVID Testing for Upcoming School Year

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will scale back most of its COVID-19 measures—including the mask mandate and weekly testing—for the upcoming school year. The LAUSD announced these changes just two weeks before the start of the fall semester on Aug 15. “As we have entered into a new phase of this virus where…


LA County Opts Against Reinstating Indoor Mask Mandate

LOS ANGELES—Citing continued downward trends in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Los Angeles County scrubbed plans July 28 to re-impose a universal indoor mask-wearing mandate that would have taken effect the next day. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told reporters in an online briefing that the county’s average daily number of new COVID cases over the…


San Diego Unified School District Returns to Indoor Masking

SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Unified School District is requiring indoor masking starting July 18, a result of San Diego County entering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) high COVID-19 transmission level last week. The school district made the announcement on Friday and will apply to students, teachers, and staff attending summer school and…


Facts Matter (April 14): Biden’s Employer Mandate REINSTATED By Appeals Court; Mask Mandate Extended; More Coming

Despite the fact that most Americans are over COVID-19, have gotten back to their regular lives, and just wish to move on, it looks like government officials have some other ideas. Just one week ago, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the vaccine mandate on federal employees. The Department of Defense is currently engaged in…