Overview
- Denver’s measure bars officers from covering their faces during detentions or arrests and requires visible identification readable from about 25 feet.
- Exemptions cover undercover work, SWAT or other tactical responses, required safety gear, and emergency operations.
- DHS said agents will not comply, invoking the Supremacy Clause and pointing to sharp increases in assaults and doxxing threats against immigration officers.
- Mayor Mike Johnston plans to sign the ordinance this week, following his executive order restricting ICE use of city property without a judicial warrant.
- Washington state advanced a comparable bill to the governor that would prohibit most masked public interactions by officers and create a civil right to sue, with an emergency clause for immediate effect if signed.