The Reno County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday morning to restore the governor’s order requiring masks or other face coverings to be worn in public. The Tuesday vote rescinds an earlier resolution to not uphold a state of Kansas executive order. As a result, the state order is now in effect in all of Reno County. “We’re trending in the wrong direction,” Nick Baldetti, the county’s health department director, said at the meeting. “From my perspective, I’m really concerned. “Every individual has the responsibility to do their part to make sure everyone is safe.” This latest development makes not wearing a mask in public anywhere in Reno County a civil infraction enforceable by civil fines and or other legal remedies.
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