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California creates 'strike teams' to enforce virus limits

 

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-creates-strike-teams-to-enforce-virus-limits/33034900

 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

California is creating “strike teams” from 10 state agencies to enforce guidelines designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.

He said the teams would “go after people that are thumbing their nose, that are particularly being aggressive, reticent to do anything."

 

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He singled out bars, restaurants, meat packing plants and other facilities that he said may be putting employees as well as customers at risk.

The teams include representatives from the California Highway Patrol; the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, as well as people from Alcohol Beverage Control; Barbering & Cosmetology; Business Oversight; Consumer Affairs; Food and Agriculture; Labor Commissioner’s Office; and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

“It's more education. I'm not coming out with a fist,” Newsom insisted, but those on the strike team have licensing and enforcement power over a broad array of businesses that are subject to stringent guidelines.

The Democratic governor on Wednesday broadened restrictions across much of the state on bars, indoor dining, movie theaters, gambling and others in places where he said crowds over the long Independence Day weekend would be particularly vulnerable.