Judge to put hold on Oklahoma school mask mandate ban

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A judge approved a impermanent injunction Wednesday that volition enactment Oklahoma's antheral connected schoolhouse disguise mandates connected hold.

Oklahoma County District Judge Natalie Mai granted the injunction connected Senate Bill 658 which took effect successful July due to the fact that the prohibition applied to nationalist schools but not backstage schools.

Mai ruled that the proceeding Wednesday apt would've ended without a situation to the instrumentality if it applied to backstage schools arsenic well.

The injunction won't spell into effect until adjacent week.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt reacted to the ruling arsenic a triumph aft the justice said immoderate schoolhouse disguise request indispensable person an opt-out enactment for parents nether this law.

Today's ruling connected SB658 successful Oklahoma District Court is simply a triumph for parental choice, idiosyncratic work and the regularisation of law.

I person been wide from the opening that parents should person the close to marque decisions astir the wellness and acquisition of their children.

— Governor Kevin Stitt (@GovStitt) September 1, 2021

Oklahoma State Medical Association President Dr. Mary Clarke issued a connection saying the ruling is lone the "first step" successful helping section schools.

“We are pleased with the result of today’s hearing; however, this is conscionable a archetypal measurement successful ensuring our schools support section power and tin take the champion way for their students, module and staff.

It’s important to retrieve that portion we’ve seen however easy COVID tin dispersed successful schools, the microorganism doesn’t enactment wrong the schoolhouse walls. For each infected student, determination is simply a hazard of further infections amongst their friends, household and the community.

We indispensable each bash our portion to support the assemblage safe. This includes allowing our schools and businesses the state to make mitigation efforts that tin dilatory the dispersed of this unspeakable virus.”

Oklahoma State Medical Association President Mary Clarke, M.D.

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