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Wichita City Council Ordinance No. 51-307: Facemasks Required In Wichita, Kansas
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Title (Dublin Core)
Wichita City Council Ordinance No. 51-307: Facemasks Required In Wichita, Kansas
Description (Dublin Core)
This Wichita ordinance, passed on July 3, 2020, overrode the Sedgwick County Commission's vote declining to implement Kansas Governor Laura Kelly's executive order making masks mandatory statewide; a vote that was held the previous day. Due to an accelerating positive test rate in both Sedgwick County and Wichita, the Wichita mayor convened a special session of the City Council to mandate in the city what has become one of the most effective preventative weapons against COVID-19. This order specifies the necessity for masks in public, when citizens must wear them, and penalties for non-compliance. Moreover, this order stands as an artifact of the divisive politicization that has come to dominate much of the United States's coronavirus response, especially in states like Kansas, where a Democrat executive, like Governor Kelly or Mayor Whipple, has repeatedly clashed with a Republican-dominated legislature or county commission.
Date (Dublin Core)
July 7, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Aaron Peterka
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Aaron Peterka
Partner (Dublin Core)
Northeastern University
Type (Dublin Core)
Text
Source (Dublin Core)
Wichita City Council
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Wichita Eagle
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government Local
English
Clothing & Accessories
English
Health & Wellness
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
mask
kansas
Wichita
executive orders
mask ordinance
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/07/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/24/2020
07/30/2020
11/04/2020
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This item was submitted on July 7, 2020 by Aaron Peterka using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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