N.Y. -- Nassau County's controversial mask ban bill has been signed into law. County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed the legislation Wednesday, making it a crime for anyone to wear a mask or face ...

LONG ISLAND - It is officially illegal to wear a mask in public in Nassau County ... no specific plan has been announced to enact such a ban in Nassau County, but lawmakers say medical conditions ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill making it a crime for anyone to wear a mask or face covering to hide ... by people wearing masks. The ban makes mask-wearing a misdemeanor ...

A controversial ban ... of the Nassau County Legislature, or county council, said the measure was introduced in response to “antisemitic incidents, often perpetrated by those in masks ...

"Nassau County's mask ban is a dangerous misuse of the law to ... people should not be allowed to cover their face in a manner that hides their identity when in public," Blakeman said Monday ...

Wesslin Omar Ramirez Castillo of Hicksville has become the first in Nassau County to face charges under the mask ban recently approved by the Nassau County Legislature. Castillo, 18, was arrested ...

Nassau County acted after New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, said in June that she was considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system. She did not follow up with a ...

said Ramirez Castillo will also be facing a misdemeanor violation of the face mask law in the coming days. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who signed the mask ban into law ...

The man arrested on Sunday, Wesslin Omar Ramirez Castillo, 18, the first to face charges under a mask ban passed this month in Nassau County, N.Y., was not engaged in protest. He was walking down ...