{"id":171152,"date":"2026-02-10T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/171152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:29:10","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-california-law-banning-masks-for-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/171152\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks California law banning masks for law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA federal judge in Los Angeles has blocked a new California state law that bans federal and local law enforcement officers from wearing masks. The ruling came from a judge appointed by President Clinton, who said the law discriminates against immigration agents and other federal officers because of the exemption for state officers.State Senator Scott Weiner said a new bill is being crafted that would apply to state officers such as the California Highway Patrol. Weiner said in a statement that SB 267, the legislation that was blocked, originally included a mask ban for state officers but it was removed after consultation with Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s office.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Los Angeles has blocked a new California state law that bans federal and local law enforcement officers from wearing masks. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Federal judge blocks California from its mask ban for ICE agents\/federal officers, noting it violates federal law by discriminating against those officers. <\/p>\n<p>The ban does not apply to all officers in California. CHP is exempted: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2NplcbJzMK\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/2NplcbJzMK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZavalaA\/status\/2020990693276307900?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ruling came from a judge appointed by President Clinton, who said the law discriminates against immigration agents and other federal officers because of the exemption for state officers.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator Scott Weiner said a new bill is being crafted that would apply to state officers such as the California Highway Patrol. Weiner said in a statement that SB 267, the legislation that was blocked, originally included a mask ban for state officers but it was removed after consultation with Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New: After federal court blocked California\u2019s mask ban for ICE officers\/federal agents because it don\u2019t apply to all officers in the state, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scott_Wiener?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Scott_Wiener<\/a> files bill to apply it to the California Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p>He notes Newsom\u2019s office wanted them exempted from it: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k0laYOgyxX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/k0laYOgyxX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZavalaA\/status\/2020994355868336591?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge in Los Angeles has blocked a new California state law that bans federal and local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,859,3501,8,852,34156,5782,5037,2871,21225,734,47,12298,82019,82018,4186,12023,82017,3025],"class_list":["post-171152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-california-law","tag-california-news","tag-chp","tag-exemption","tag-federal-judge","tag-gov-gavin-newsom","tag-ice","tag-immigration-agent","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-mask","tag-new-bill","tag-other-federal-officer","tag-sb","tag-state-officer","tag-state-senator-scott-weiner","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}