DA’s office: Texas mask order isn’t enforceable. Fort Worth, others focus on education

Abbott’s executive order mandating masks allows local officials to fine people up to $250 for each violation after a person’s first warning. While officials may remove violators from businesses, the order also states that law enforcement cannot “detain, arrest, or confine in jail” anyone for violating it. But in order to issue a warning or citations, an officer must detain a person.

A spokesman for the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said Friday that since officers can’t detain under the order “it appears that law enforcement cannot legally enforce” the governor’s order.

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