The reason why you had the mask order in Kansas City recently was because the mayor issued a mask mandate back in July, according to the Missouri law from earlier this year. After 30 days, the KC city council voted to extend it, and did so until explicitly ending it earlier this month. Same with Jackson County health department. Independence never had a recent mask mandate because they have their own municipal health department that does not answer to the Jackson County health department.

So in fact all that was done in accordance with the new state law. Over in St. Louis County, on the other had, you have a very different situation. The new procedure was not followed. The St. Louis County executive issued a mask mandate in July. The county commission voted it down 5-2. The county executive refused to rescind it. The county commission later held a non-binding vote supporting the executive's order, but this made no difference from a legal standpoint. The order was challenged in court by the Missouri attorney general. That court issued a stay temporarily blocking the executive order, but the issue got very murky by what the court did after that. The court basically ruled that the original order had expired, but that the executive could issue another one and that the court would accept a challenge in court of that one. In the meantime, things are a mess in St. Louis County and no action has been taken by the county commission yet to extend the new order. St. Louis City, by contrast, has a mask order that also followed the new procedure as KC did. But what do you expect, it's St. Louis City!

The reason why you had the mask order in Kansas City recently was because the mayor issued a mask mandate back in July, according to the Missouri law from earlier this year. After 30 days, the KC city council voted to extend it, and did so until explicitly ending it earlier this month. Same with Jackson County health department. Independence never had a recent mask mandate because they have their own municipal health department that does not answer to the Jackson County health department.

So in fact all that was done in accordance with the new state law. Over in St. Louis County, on the other had, you have a very different situation. The new procedure was not followed. The St. Louis County executive issued a mask mandate in July. The county commission voted it down 5-2. The county executive refused to rescind it. The county commission later mad a non-binding vote supporting the executive's order, but this made no difference from a legal standpoint. The order was challenged in court by the Missouri attorney general. That court issued a stay temporarily blocking the executive order, but the issue got very murky by what the court did after that. The court basically ruled that the original order had expired, but that the executive could issue another one and that the court would accept a challenge in court of that one. In the meantime, things are a mess in St. Louis County and no action has been taken by the county commission yet to extend the new order.

The reason why you had the mask order in Kansas City recently was because the mayor issued a mask mandate back in July, according to the Missouri law from earlier this year. After 30 days, the KC city council voted to extend it, and did so until explicitly ending it earlier this month. Same with Jackson County health department. Independence never had a recent mask mandate because they have their own municipal health department that does not answer to the Jackson County health department.