Despite a high number of compliance checks, the State Fire Marshal’s office has not cited or shut down a single business for not following COVID mitigation requirements. Why is that?
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AG Jeff Landry pens an open letter asking BESE not to require students to wear masks once classes resume next month. In the letter he calls masks a tremendous distraction and a potential mandate crossing the line on liberty. Mask requirements so far appear to be being made on a district by district basis.
A Caddo District Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the City’s implementation of a mandate requiring masks to be worn inside businesses. New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, and East Baton Rouge Parish have also issued similar mandates. Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino believes they do have the authority to do so.
If the mandate were to be implemented non-compliant businesses could potentially be shut down while the state remained in Phase Two.
It will be a hot weekend as heat index values will reach 110, maybe even 115 degrees. State Climatologist Barry Keim says this stretch of hot weather will continue into early next week and it will be quite warm for outdoor activities in the morning…