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New York State Pushes for Ban on Masked Law Enforcement, Citing Transparency

New York State is considering a new rule to stop police officers from wearing masks during their jobs. This aims to make police more accountable to the public.

#NYPoliceTransparency, #OfficerAccountability, #MaskBan, #LawEnforcement, #NYSPolice

https://newsletter.tf/new-york-ban-masked-police-officer-transparency/

New York State is proposing a ban on masked law enforcement officers. This move aims to increase transparency and officer accountability across the state.

#NYPoliceTransparency, #OfficerAccountability, #MaskBan, #LawEnforcement, #NYSPolice
https://newsletter.tf/new-york-ban-masked-police-officer-transparency/

"Maryland lawmakers and advocacy groups hope to pass a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers and agents from wearing face coverings or masks during normal operations."

#Maryland #LawEnforecement #MaskBan #ICENews #ICE
https://dbknews.com/2026/03/09/maryland-bill-law-enforcement-face-coverings/

"Maryland lawmakers and advocacy groups hope to pass a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers and agents from wearing face coverings or masks during normal operations."

#Maryland #LawEnforecement #MaskBan #ICENews #ICE
https://dbknews.com/2026/03/09/maryland-bill-law-enforcement-face-coverings/

Update: #California Can’t Officially Enforce #MaskBan, Federal Judge Rules

https://lataco.com/masked-law-enforcement-ban

Although the court had found that federal agents can do their jobs without wearing masks, the law, as is, does not apply equally to law enforcement officers across the state, the judge cited as cause for her ruling.

Update: #California Can’t Officially Enforce #MaskBan, Federal Judge Rules

https://lataco.com/masked-law-enforcement-ban

Although the court had found that federal agents can do their jobs without wearing masks, the law, as is, does not apply equally to law enforcement officers across the state, the judge cited as cause for her ruling.

#LA Council Members Roast Chief McDonnell For Suggesting That #LAPD Will Not Enforce #MaskBan

https://lataco.com/city-council-mask-ban

During Tuesday’s meeting, Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson described the chief’s comments as “disturbing” and “wholly unacceptable."

#LA Council Members Roast Chief McDonnell For Suggesting That #LAPD Will Not Enforce #MaskBan

https://lataco.com/city-council-mask-ban

During Tuesday’s meeting, Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson described the chief’s comments as “disturbing” and “wholly unacceptable."

It’s time to boycott the Kennedy Center.

Trump has taken a great American arts institution and started destroying it (like he does with everything he touches)

The Center announced an employee mask ban today, putting the lives of staff and patrons at risk.

Employees must obtain a doctor’s note if they feel their disability merits wearing a mask. They will be forced to divulge medical information to their employer.

Even if they successfully jump through all the hoops, they will be removed from a public facing role.

Everyone needs the right to protect their health. You shouldn’t need to already be disabled to be “allowed” to avoid COVID.

This is about optics and control. They want to promote the narrative that COVID is over, even though they know it’s not true.

This is an inevitable consequence of failure to normalize masks. Please if you can wear a mask, wear one now.

It won’t be long before the fascists ban them altogether.

#maskban #uspoli #fascism #trump #kennedycenter #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #wearamask #nomaskban

It’s time to boycott the Kennedy Center.

Trump has taken a great American arts institution and started destroying it (like he does with everything he touches)

The Center announced an employee mask ban today, putting the lives of staff and patrons at risk.

Employees must obtain a doctor’s note if they feel their disability merits wearing a mask. They will be forced to divulge medical information to their employer.

Even if they successfully jump through all the hoops, they will be removed from a public facing role.

Everyone needs the right to protect their health. You shouldn’t need to already be disabled to be “allowed” to avoid COVID.

This is about optics and control. They want to promote the narrative that COVID is over, even though they know it’s not true.

This is an inevitable consequence of failure to normalize masks. Please if you can wear a mask, wear one now.

It won’t be long before the fascists ban them altogether.

#maskban #uspoli #fascism #trump #kennedycenter #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #wearamask #nomaskban

In recent weeks & days, the #Trump admin began a review of $9B in federal contracts & grants to #Harvard; called for restrictions including a #MaskBan & *#DEI* removal; threatened to strip Harvard of its #TaxExempt status; & demanded info on some #visa holders at Harvard w/ a threat to take away its ability to enroll #foreign #students.
Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands that it said would cede control to the govt. The Trump admin subsequently said it was freezing $2.3B in funding.
#law

In recent weeks & days, the #Trump admin began a review of $9B in federal contracts & grants to #Harvard; called for restrictions including a #MaskBan & *#DEI* removal; threatened to strip Harvard of its #TaxExempt status; & demanded info on some #visa holders at Harvard w/ a threat to take away its ability to enroll #foreign #students.
Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands that it said would cede control to the govt. The Trump admin subsequently said it was freezing $2.3B in funding.
#law

Veterinarians Working on #BirdFlu, Pet Food Safety Fired in HHS Purge

#CatHealth #RFK #N95 #MaskBan #PublicHealthAttack
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/02/bird-flu-fda-veterinarians-laid-off/

Veterinarians Working on #BirdFlu, Pet Food Safety Fired in HHS Purge

#CatHealth #RFK #N95 #MaskBan #PublicHealthAttack
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/02/bird-flu-fda-veterinarians-laid-off/

Trump Targets #Disabled with #MaskBan

- #AI can ID perps with masks: no legit reason to ban
- Masks collect DNA: benefit to police
- Trump cronies ban masks to forbid disabled from protesting
- #N95 🖕
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/columbia-university-mask-ban-trump-administration-demands/

Trump Targets #Disabled with #MaskBan

- #AI can ID perps with masks: no legit reason to ban
- Masks collect DNA: benefit to police
- Trump cronies ban masks to forbid disabled from protesting
- #N95 🖕
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/columbia-university-mask-ban-trump-administration-demands/

Apparently Columbia University has agreed to Trump administration demands:

https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-columbia-university-work-stops-researchers-funding-pulled-antisemitism-campus/16064110/

But I'd still urge US folks to call their congress rep to say these kind of research funding cuts are unacceptable.

You can remind your congress rep that ME/CFS research is badly underfunded.

You can also say ME/CFS patients are against mask bans because masks are needed to protect our health!

@mecfs

#MEcfs #LongCovid #Research #Resist #USPol #MaskBan #CovidIsNotOver

Apparently Columbia University has agreed to Trump administration demands:

https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-columbia-university-work-stops-researchers-funding-pulled-antisemitism-campus/16064110/

But I'd still urge US folks to call their congress rep to say these kind of research funding cuts are unacceptable.

You can remind your congress rep that ME/CFS research is badly underfunded.

You can also say ME/CFS patients are against mask bans because masks are needed to protect our health!

@mecfs

#MEcfs #LongCovid #Research #Resist #USPol #MaskBan #CovidIsNotOver

New York Governor Hochul is trying to sneak a mask ban into the budget, despite the opposition of many disabled & high risk people who NEED masks to safely access public spaces.

Criminalizing masks during an airborne pandemic, while measles is on the rise, is dangerous, ableist & eugenicist.

Call and email elected officials and tell them you oppose mask bans and that medical exemptions are NOT sufficient

https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-is-pushing-a-last-minute-subway-mask-ban-in-state-budget-talks

#maskban #noNYmaskban #ableism #eugenics #uglylaws #newyork #uspoli #covidisairborne #covidisnotover

New York Governor Hochul is trying to sneak a mask ban into the budget, despite the opposition of many disabled & high risk people who NEED masks to safely access public spaces.

Criminalizing masks during an airborne pandemic, while measles is on the rise, is dangerous, ableist & eugenicist.

Call and email elected officials and tell them you oppose mask bans and that medical exemptions are NOT sufficient

https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-is-pushing-a-last-minute-subway-mask-ban-in-state-budget-talks

#maskban #noNYmaskban #ableism #eugenics #uglylaws #newyork #uspoli #covidisairborne #covidisnotover

If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, please consider the following:

😷 Police are not doctors
😷 Many disabilities are invisible
😷 Disabled people don’t live in a bubble. I need my friends and caregivers to mask to protect me
😷 Everyone should have the right to protect their health, you shouldn’t have to already be sick to be permitted to mask
😷 Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers and increases odds of aggression

The reality is that mask bans are discriminatory, ableist and eugenicist. They push disabled people out of public spaces. They put marginalized and POC at increased risk of police profiling.

There’s no official policy for a medical exemption either, it’s at police discretion.

If you’re stopped and questioned, you will have to prove you’re masking for the “right reasons”

I’m more than willing to admit that if I were stopped by a cop for masking, I would appear nervous, shaky, tachycardic and probably “suspicious”.

Not because I’m doing anything wrong, but because my illnesses do not respond well to stress and the police are stressful.

It’s not right to put the onus on the masker to defend their right to mask. We’re still in a global pandemic. Texas has a measles outbreak. There’s tuberculosis in Kansas. Bird flu is spreading and it’s the worst year for influenza A in over a decade.

Masks are a public health tool. They’re a disability accommodation. They should NOT be criminalized.

For more on mask bans and medical exemptions, I wrote an article on the Nassau County ban here:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#nomaskban #uspoli #texas #northcarolina #maskban #disability #uglylaws #publichealth #ableism #eugenics #h5n1 #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne

If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, please consider the following:

😷 Police are not doctors
😷 Many disabilities are invisible
😷 Disabled people don’t live in a bubble. I need my friends and caregivers to mask to protect me
😷 Everyone should have the right to protect their health, you shouldn’t have to already be sick to be permitted to mask
😷 Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers and increases odds of aggression

The reality is that mask bans are discriminatory, ableist and eugenicist. They push disabled people out of public spaces. They put marginalized and POC at increased risk of police profiling.

There’s no official policy for a medical exemption either, it’s at police discretion.

If you’re stopped and questioned, you will have to prove you’re masking for the “right reasons”

I’m more than willing to admit that if I were stopped by a cop for masking, I would appear nervous, shaky, tachycardic and probably “suspicious”.

Not because I’m doing anything wrong, but because my illnesses do not respond well to stress and the police are stressful.

It’s not right to put the onus on the masker to defend their right to mask. We’re still in a global pandemic. Texas has a measles outbreak. There’s tuberculosis in Kansas. Bird flu is spreading and it’s the worst year for influenza A in over a decade.

Masks are a public health tool. They’re a disability accommodation. They should NOT be criminalized.

For more on mask bans and medical exemptions, I wrote an article on the Nassau County ban here:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#nomaskban #uspoli #texas #northcarolina #maskban #disability #uglylaws #publichealth #ableism #eugenics #h5n1 #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne

New #MaskBan Bill
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New #MaskBan Bill
Your HELP needed

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North Dakota becomes the latest state to try & enact a mask ban

Pay particular attention to this part of the bill

“With intent to conceal the identity of individual while congregating in a public place with any other individual wearing a mask”

Being masked with other maskers should NOT be a crime

https://ndlegis.gov/content/application-template

#maskban #nomaskban #covidisnotover #uglylaws #uspoli #disability #ableism #disabilityrights

North Dakota becomes the latest state to try & enact a mask ban

Pay particular attention to this part of the bill

“With intent to conceal the identity of individual while congregating in a public place with any other individual wearing a mask”

Being masked with other maskers should NOT be a crime

https://ndlegis.gov/content/application-template

#maskban #nomaskban #covidisnotover #uglylaws #uspoli #disability #ableism #disabilityrights

Columbia University NY: Professor Submits #MaskBan Proposal

Medical mask exception -it’s not clear what documentation is required to prevent being unmasked, fined, harassed, jailed
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/01/28/columbia-professor-submits-mask-ban-proposal-to-university-senate/

Jfc the president of my school just sent out an email titled, "Starting a special year with a renewed commitment to belonging," that lays out why they are soft banning masks on campus.

The policy states that campus security will determine whether you're wearing a mask for health or to conceal your identity. If they believe it is the latter, they will ask you to remove your mask to be identified.

Not only does that pose a health risk, it will most certainly result in an I crease of racial profiling on campus.

Wtf.

#CovidCautious #MaskUp #COVID #MaskBan #Canada #BIPOC #A11y #DisabilityJustice

Jfc the president of my school just sent out an email titled, "Starting a special year with a renewed commitment to belonging," that lays out why they are soft banning masks on campus.

The policy states that campus security will determine whether you're wearing a mask for health or to conceal your identity. If they believe it is the latter, they will ask you to remove your mask to be identified.

Not only does that pose a health risk, it will most certainly result in an I crease of racial profiling on campus.

Wtf.

#CovidCautious #MaskUp #COVID #MaskBan #Canada #BIPOC #A11y #DisabilityJustice

Graphic by virgoakahater

#mask #masking #MaskBan #disability #covid #NoNYMaskBan #CovidIsNotOver

Graphic by virgoakahater

#mask #masking #MaskBan #disability #covid #NoNYMaskBan #CovidIsNotOver

As many other observers have noted, I think the increasing appetite for mask bans by conservative governments (regardless of which political party they ostensibly represent) in America sits at an odious junction between a eugenicist approach to Covid policy, a desire to impede anti-genocide protestors under the guise of fighting "antisemitism," and appeasing the anti-vax and Covid-denying fascists those right wing government bodies rely on for political support. Unfortunately however, unless you're extremely plugged in to the experiences of the various groups being targeted by these mask bans (people with disabilities, Covid-cautious maskers, anti-genocide protestors, antifascists, etc) it can be very difficult for the average person to understand the sheer reactionary animus and fascist motivations behind these policies. As such, I think this eye-witness account by Jews for Mask Rights of the Nassau County, NY mask ban meeting is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand how this intersection of horrifying reactionary goals leads to the adoption of disastrous policies like a county-wide mask ban.

https://www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/anti-mask-harassment-nassau-countys-mask-ban-hearing

Anti-Mask Harassment at Nassau County’s Mask Ban Hearing

"The public comment period devolved into a spectacle of intolerance. Masked individuals were not called to speak until 5:30 PM, nearly five hours after the start time. By then, some would-be speakers had to leave before they could testify, and the bill's proponents in the legislature had spent hours hearing arguments from Democratic legislators about the bill’s unconstitutionality and the waste of taxpayer money to defend it. Yet, they still were insistent on pushing this problematic bill through.

Former Mayor Wayne Hall, an immunocompromised kidney transplant recipient, was the first to speak against the mask ban. The crowd loudly booed the elected official at the mere mention of COVID-19 remaining a threat to his health.

One co-writer of our Jews for Mask Rights open letter was booed during her testimony about her concerns about the bill and her struggle with Long COVID. The crowd yelled obscenities when she shared her fears about harassment – a valid fear, considering another co-writer had been harassed for masking in NYC just that morning. The irony of a group allegedly “opposing hate speech” and ”concerned with Jewish safety” mocking a disabled Jewish speaker was not lost on us."

To be frank, I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn that a public meeting about an anti-mask law in a New York suburb that ultimately passed the ban along party lines (12 Republicans vote for it, 7 Democrats voted against) was a reactionary clusterfuck, but even by the standards of winger politics on the local level, this gathering was a fascist nightmare. Opponents of the ban were forced to wait five hours to speak, and even when they were allowed to do so suffered under the clearly biased interpretations of the meeting rules by the presiding official, Howard J. Kopel. Pro-ban supporters harassed, attempted to intimidate, and even coughed on mask wearers, including immune compromised individuals, while local police stood idly by; although they were happy to physically assault one anti-ban speaker for the crime of asking for more speaking time when her allotted three minutes were up.

On the surface, all of this may sound excessively authoritarian for a public meeting about a county policy, but as the authors of this piece note, the oppression is indeed the whole point of the so-called Mask Transparency Act in the first place, and why the vague wording of the law effectively empowers police in the county to selectively enforce it against what amount to political enemies of the conservative government that passed it. Quite frankly, the fascists in Nassau County wouldn't have it any other way.

#MaskBan #NassauCounty #Fascism #Eugenics #CivilRights #Covid

Mask bans re-emerging and gaining momentum. To all on "the left": so many of us have been trying to warn again and again, you *have* to hold the line, no one left behind, and keep reinforcing pandemic precautions, and keep fucking masking up! One break in our defences, one compromise in our solidarity, and fascism finds a way through: https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/ #fascism #MaskBan #MaskUp #KeepMasking #CovidIsNotOver

Mask bans re-emerging and gaining momentum. To all on "the left": so many of us have been trying to warn again and again, you *have* to hold the line, no one left behind, and keep reinforcing pandemic precautions, and keep fucking masking up! One break in our defences, one compromise in our solidarity, and fascism finds a way through: https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/ #fascism #MaskBan #MaskUp #KeepMasking #CovidIsNotOver

I wish those Nassau County fascists were honest about it. They could have required people to wear identifying bar codes while in public instead. That would have accomplished their stated purpose.

Their real purpose was to say "fuck you" to people trying to stop the spread of deadly pathogens.

Sociopathic morons. Elected. What a shithole society.

#maskban

I'm hoping that the law of unintended consequences for stupid, stupid, stupid government actions applies to the Nassau mask ban, and someone develops a transparent COVID-proof face covering, so that not only does the mask ban not force people to risk their health, but it leads to vastly more people masking all the time.

#Nassau #MaskBan #COVID

From Alice Wong:

"Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest"

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest

#Disability #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MaskBan #Masks #DisabilityVisibility