NEW YORK — Mask mandates are a thing of the past for nearly all New Yorkers outside the health care industry — but a group of New York City Police Department officers caught up in a class action lawsuit over conditions at borough courthouses remain under a federal judge’s order to cover their noses and mouths.
Many of the 500 cops in the NYPD Court Section who process and transport defendants from jail cells to arraignments are not happy about following rules that have been dropped for everyone else.
“No one in the entire building has to wear masks,” a Court Section officer told the Daily News. “Everyone has access to the defendants, but we’re the ones being punished after the mayor and the governor said we don’t have to wear it anymore.”
