On March 28, City Manager Margaret Silveira, acting as the city’s director of emergency services, issued Executive Order 2020-01, which renders violations of orders issued by the Lake County Public Health officer or the governor of the state of California related to the COVID-19 emergency as violations of the Lakeport Municipal Code.
The executive order and the accompanying report can be seen in the agenda packet published below, pages 62 to 65.
Silveira told the council in its virtual Tuesday night meeting that the order gives the Lakeport Police Department the ability to issue administrative citations to anyone who violates such orders.
The city currently is working to enforce the countywide shelter in place order that’s been in effect since March 19 and was extended to May 3, as well as the governor’s statewide stay at home order, which also became effective March 19.
So far, Silveira said the police department has done a lot of education and sought voluntary compliance.
The council voted unanimously to ratify Silveira’s order.
The Lakeport Police Department reported on Tuesday that over the weekend its officers contacted 38 additional individuals related to the shelter in place order but issued no citations.
Last week, it issued its only citation to a woman found drinking wine in a courthouse parking lot. She was cited after repeatedly refusing to go home, as Lake County News has reported.
Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen said that only warnings have been issued since then.
Police said they also checked the security of 68 businesses, and conducted more than four hours of foot patrol and 1,251 miles of vehicle patrol.
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