A mandate from a local sheriff in Florida is going against the recommendations from science and government officials: masks will not be worn.
“Now, that ordinance exempts government entities and leaves the decision to the figure heads,” Woods explained in the email, obtained by CNN. “So, as for us, my order will stand as is when you are on-duty/working as my employee and representing my Office — masks will not be worn.” Woods then listed out a few exceptions when masks need to be worn: at the courthouse, schools, hospitals and while on patrol and responding to a nursing home or involving a “High Risk Elderly individual,” he said in the email. And the order doesn’t just extend to those on the payroll — anyone walking into a sheriff’s office, either the main office or a district one, will be asked to remove their mask, Woods wrote.
