From ABC7 News: It’s a California law, federal law enforcement officers are banned from wearing masks while on duty, but the Los Angeles Police Department doesn’t plan to enforce it.
Police Chief Jim McDonnell said that, while he is frustrated by the way immigration enforcement has been handled, one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict doesn’t make sense.
Chief McDonnell said that the state’s federal mask ban is not a good public policy decision, and it wasn’t well thought out.
The ban on face coverings, known as the “No Secret Police Act,” was introduced following immigration raids across Southern California that began last summer.
California’s ban on ICE agents wearing face masks went into effect on January 1.
The ban is also being challenged by the Trump administration.
BREAKING🚨: LAPD just REFUSED to enforce Gavin Newsom’s new ‘No Secret Police’ mask ban on ICE agents protecting themselves from doxing threats!
Chief McDonnell: Confronting federal officers over masks is tactically unsafe & makes ZERO sense. pic.twitter.com/fYhPaV6siF
— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) February 1, 2026
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And in Seattle, Washington, the local police union has declared they will NOT uphold the Democrat Socialist mayor’s order for police to investigate and document ICE activity.
WHAM! Police Union Tells Socialist Mayor To Pound Sand Over Anti-ICE Order
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