As the novel coronavirus pandemic worsens, officials must be vigilant in educating and convincing the public to follow instructions to stay home and use the criminal justice process only as a last resort. Citing a sharp rise in cases and deaths in Maryland and the United States, Governor Larry Hogan issued a national stay-at-home order. “We no longer ask or suggest that Marylanders stay home,” he said. “We ask them to do so.” † jurisdictions that did not issue orders requiring or advising individuals to stay home during the observation period were not included in this figure. The jurisdictions without order were American Samoa, Arkansas, Connecticut, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming. “We crossed a line today,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said, giving instructions to people to stay home or stay six feet or more away when they`re outside. The mayor of Anchorage had previously asked residents to “settle down.” This amended order extends the home order and requires all Chicago parks, beaches and hiking trails on and off the lakefront, the Chicago Riverwalk and the Bloomingdale Trail (606) to remain closed until June 3, 2020. People can walk or jog, but they must stay at least six feet away from others.

In addition, the ordinance prohibits boating and gatherings of more than ten people. Read the full Order No. 2020-3. The amended order imposes a reporting obligation on all businesses and entities licensed under Title 4 of the Municipal Code to report to the CRPD any suspension of operations due to cases of COVID-19 among employees or customers, or any case where the company learns that five or more employees or customers have tested positive for COVID-19 within 14 days. “I want all Vermonters to understand that the sooner and more accurately we follow these lockdowns, the sooner and safer we can get out of this and get our daily lives and our economy back on track,” said Governor Phil Scott. Home-support arrangements can reduce activities related to the spread of COVID-19 in the community, including population movements and close person-to-person contact outside the home. These findings could inform future public measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the community. Find out how long to stay home and avoid others if you test positive or are exposed to COVID-19. • Delaware: Full reopening. Gov. John Carney (D) had announced that state employees, long-term care homes and health care facilities must provide proof of vaccination or undergo weekly testing by Sept.

30. K-12 school staff and volunteers were required to provide proof of vaccination or undergo weekly testing by November 1. Employees and visitors to government facilities must wear a mask. After several Kansas congregations gave orders to stay home in quick succession, including in the greater Kansas City area, Governor Laura Kelly issued a statewide order. “While I have left these decisions to local health departments for as long as possible,” she said, “the reality is that the patchwork approach that has evolved is inconsistent and a recipe for chaos.” This regulation establishes protocols for acute care facilities and hospitals to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. The protocols include guidelines to reduce waste of personal protective equipment, safety restrictions for hospital visitors, staff monitoring for COVID-19 symptoms, and COVID-19 reporting requirements. The amended regulation allows all acute care hospitals to introduce visitor restrictions based on CRPD requirements, which can be regularly updated and disseminated through the Health Alert Network based on the level of risk in the community. The order also requires facilities to report clusters of COVID-19 patients. Read the full instructions in Order No. 2020-2 to keep people home, which began in California in mid-March, quickly swept the country. Today, residents of a vast majority of states, the Navajo Nation and many cities and counties are instructed to stay home as much as possible in an act of solidarity that public health experts say is essential to controlling the virus.

Gov. Steve Sisolak had shut down all non-essential businesses and encouraged residents to stay home for weeks before issuing an official executive order codifying a message he had been trying to send for weeks: “Stay home for our state,” he said on Twitter. Gov. Jay Inslee tried to ask people to stay home in Washington state, which is one of the worst virus outbreaks in the country. Then he made it his duty. May 2020 will continue until the Commissioner determines that the public health threat posed by COVID-19 has decreased sufficiently for them to be addressed. Read the full second amended Regulation 2020-2. Most policymakers recognize that stay-at-home orders are an important tool to protect public health, not a tool to increase penalties for other criminal behaviour. Nevertheless, these orders have raised long-standing concerns about the practice of charging multiple charges for the same indictable offence.

This can lead to excessively harsh sentences for relatively low offenses, exacerbating overcriminalization and mass incarceration. Gov. Charlie Baker held back from declaring a formal order, but announced a recommendation for residents to stay home. “I don`t think I can or should order U.S. citizens to be confined to their homes for days,” he said. “It doesn`t make sense from a public health perspective and it`s not realistic.” Residents of Kansas City, St. Louis and St. Louis counties were ordered to stay home before Gov. Mike Parson issued a statewide order. The governor had previously rejected this decision, but had given the order to “get a head start on the battle”.

As of Monday, November 16, 2020, in response to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the city, residents are advised to stay home and only leave home to go to work or school, or seek basic needs such as medical care, a grocery store or pharmacy. Pick up takeaway. or receive deliveries. In addition, residents are strongly advised not to have guests in their homes, cancel traditional Thanksgiving celebrations, and avoid travel. The recommendation also outlines additional warnings and regulations regarding COVID-19, such as additional restrictions on indoor and outdoor meetings and social events, increased enforcement of restrictions on private gatherings, and ongoing industry restrictions. Read the full recommendation to stay home. Below is an overview of the range of jurisdictionally approved approaches to enforcing COVID-19 containment policies, from warnings to civil enforcement to criminal sanctions. To date, most jurisdictions have resisted the approach of arresting individuals, particularly as a first response to non-compliance with implementing regulations. However, this trend could change as the pandemic worsens. That means at least 316 million people in at least 42 states, three counties, 10 cities, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be asked to stay home. Differences in average population movements at the county level during previous and repeated orders varied by index date and rural-urban strata (Figure 2).

A decrease in average population change was observed in 2,295 (97.6 per cent) of the 2,351 counties for which population movement data were available. Mandatory stay-at-home orders were associated with reduced population movement (i.e., a higher median percentage of home devices) in the 28-day period following the start of the order, compared to the 28-day base period prior to the start of the prescription. This relationship was significant in all rural-urban strata (Supplementary Table, stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/92406). Of the 2,355 counties subject to mandatory stay-at-home orders, 436 (19%) had an order that expired by May 3, with the latest possible expiry date allowing for a 28-day follow-up period.¶¶ Movement increased significantly across all rural-urban strata (i.e., lower median percentage of appliances) in the period immediately following orders expiring or cancelling. Gov. Ralph Northam, who has closed schools and non-essential businesses and banned gatherings of more than 10 people, said issuing a stay-at-home order was a matter of semantics.