Police in a suburban New York county have made their first arrest under a new law banning face masks
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police in the suburbs of New York City have made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks. Nassau County Police say officers on Sunday night responded to reports of a suspicious person on a street in Levittown.
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police in the suburbs of New York City have made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks. Nassau County Police say officers on Sunday night responded to reports of a suspicious person on a street in Levittown.
A teenager was arrested in Nassau County, New York, after he was seen wearing a mask in public over the weekend, marking the first arrest related to the county's controversial mask ban signed earlier this month.
The GOP-controlled Nassau County Legislature passed the Mask Transparency Act in response to "antisemitic incidents, often perpetrated by those in masks"