Coronavirus: Georgia suspends anti-mask law targeting Ku Klux Klan during pandemic – By Russell Hope (Sky News) / April 16 2020
Hiding one’s identity in public has been illegal in the US state under a 1951 law targeting the white supremacist hate group.
A 70-year-old law aimed at exposing the Ku Klux Klan has been suspended to allow people to wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hiding one’s identity in public has been illegal in the US state of Georgia under a 1951 law targeting the white supremacist hate group.
But state governor Brian Kemp has temporarily suspended the legislation so people are free to cover their faces during the pandemic.
Mr Kemp said on Twitter: “I signed an order to allow Georgians to wear masks in public to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 – in accordance with CDC guidance – without fear of prosecution.”
The new order allows “wearing ‘a mask, hood, or device by which any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer’ if that person is wearing such device for the purpose of complying with the guidance of any healthcare agency or to prevent the spread of COVID-19”.
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