Currently, in accordance with CDC guidance, masks are required indoors at schools but are optional outdoors. Parents want them ended. A lawsuit has been filed by local parents against the New York State Department of Health (DOH) due to the continuation of mask requirements in schools.
HoganWillig, the law firm representing the parents, said New York’s state of emergency was over, and mandated masks should be too. “ It is time for children in New York to return to normal life, and many parents are understandably concerned that the minimal benefits of mask use are far outweighed by risks to children’s physical and mental health,” HoganWillig said.
“This lawsuit does not challenge the lack of efficacy or overall harm caused by masks but, rather, focuses on the way in which the Department of Health has violated the State’s administrative rules and regulations in promulgating unnecessary ‘emergency’ regulations.”
SOURCE: ABC Affiliate WKBW Buffalo, NY June 30, 2021