KTLA News: Newsom creates ‘strike teams’ to ensure compliance in areas where COVID-19 orders are not being enforced
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 is 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.
Health and law enforcement and other officials in some counties have publicly said they will not enforce the state health orders. Newsom said the state is stepping in from a code and licensing perspective.
Enforcement officials will first seek cooperation with local health officials and business owners, he said, which has been the state’s approach with rules throughout the pandemic. But if they find violations, the teams will leverage their enforcement and regulatory authorities to enforce the public health orders, he said.
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