Los Angeles County sheriff won't enforce vaccine mandate

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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2020, record photograph Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva speaks astatine a quality league successful Los Angeles. Villanueva says helium volition not enforce the county's vaccine mandate successful his agency. Villanueva, who oversees the largest sheriff's section successful the region with astir 18,000 employees, said Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, successful a Facebook Live lawsuit that helium does not program to transportation retired the county's mandate, nether which Los Angeles County employees had to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Oct. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)

Posted at 8:10 PM, Nov 02, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-02 21:10:53-04

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said helium won’t comply with a mandate requiring deputies beryllium vaccinated against the coronavirus oregon look termination.

Villanueva claimed Tuesday that thousands could permission the section due to the fact that of the mandate that applies to each region workers. He said that volition pb to much crime.

Villanueva, who is vaccinated, said helium believes it's a idiosyncratic prime whether to get the shot.

Villanueva's defiance brought a rebuke from region Supervisor Janice Hahn, 1 of the board's 5 members who unanimously backed the policy.

She said Villanueva is putting the nationalist and his deputies astatine risk.

About 52% of sheriff’s section deputies and different employees are afloat vaccinated, compared to 77% of each region employees.