At least 18 states and Washington, D.C., have laws that restrict masks and other face coverings, said Elly Page, senior legal ...

Many of the protesters who flooded the streets of Los Angeles to oppose President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown wore ...

Legal experts and first amendment advocates warn that efforts to ban masks could curtail free speech and anonymity ...

At the “No Kings” protest outside Nassau County’s main courthouse, on New York’s Long Island, as a crowd of perhaps 400 ...

Nassau County police on Long Island said ... passed this month, that bans people from wearing face masks in public, with exceptions for medical and religious needs. Local police are tasked with ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed the ban, the first of its kind in the U.S., which criminalizes the wearing of face masks to hide identities in public spaces except in cases of ...

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit challenging a controversial Nassau County law that bans wearing face masks in public. The lawsuit, filed last month by the advocacy group ...

A Republican candidate for New Jersey governor introduced new legislation Thursday that would prohibit people from wearing masks ... public, just weeks after a similar bill was passed in Nassau ...

A new law passed by Nassau County’s Republican-controlled Legislature makes it a misdemeanor crime to wear a face covering in public, with narrow exceptions for health or religious reasons.

The law criminalizes wearing face masks to hide identities in public spaces except in cases for medical, religious, or cultural purposes. Nassau County legislators approved the Mask Transparency ...

The legislation has been held up as a public safety measure, aimed at cutting down crimes involving people wearing masks ... at the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, which is representing ...

Nassau County, on Long Island, passed a law this month that bans people from wearing face masks in public, with exceptions for medical and religious needs. Local police are tasked with enforcing ...