Governor Confirms K-12 Students Who Don't Wear Masks Can Be Charged with a Crime (Utah)

Western Journal ^ | 8/21/20 | Jack Davis

[Libloather]

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has no sympathy for parents objecting to his edict that children attending school either wear masks or face possible criminal charges.

Herbert issued the mask mandate, for grades K-12, in July. The reopening of Utah’s public schools has drawn new attention to the edict, which calls for a maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for showing up without one. The order applies equally to adults and children, and any charge would be a misdemeanor.

Herbert said Thursday that parents opposed to his order are “a little bit irrational,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

“I think these same people might get on an airplane and say they’re not going to fasten their seat belts,” he said. “And they may be invited to get off the plane if that’s the case.”

Anna Lehnardt, a spokeswoman for Herbert, said school officials will decide if they want to make compliance a criminal issue, according to the Salt Lake City newspaper.

“It’s enforced on a district and superintendent level,” she said. “But we’re not thinking, ‘Let’s slap a bunch of kids with misdemeanors.‘”

[moovova]

Will black kids be fined? How about muslim kids? How about illegal immigrant kids?

[tbw2]

Agreed. This is after people were saying take police out of schools and stop arresting kids for fights and tantrums.

[SunkenCiv]

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[CheshireTheCat]

[Graybeard58]

Is Utah one of the states where you don’t have to inform your sexual partner, if you have AIDS?

[T.B. Yoits]

What kind of governor would expose children to something so Armageddon deadly that they need to be protected with something so critical they'll be fined $1,000 if they don't?

How does one open a school at the same time saying a simple slip of your non-protective mask will have you fined? This is about enforcing tyranny, not protection.

[LastDayz]

Well.... we all know who’ll be paying the fines and it won’t be the kids.

[Veto!]

I love the image of six-year-olds behind bars. Should do a lot to get him re-elected.

[sport]

It is not against the law not to wear a damn mask anyway. No State Legislature has enacted a statute making it mandatory
to wear a mask, even thousands who cant wait to be slaves wish they would.