California no longer requires people to wear mask indoor or outside including, jails, homeless encampments, and any counties that don't have high levels of transmission. Healthcare facilites and senior care homes still require mask to be worn. Bart leaders voted to extend their mask mandate through October 1st. Check out the updated guidelines for face coverings via California Department of Health down Below.
- Shifts from a strong recommendation for the general population, in all indoor settings at all times to use of CDC Community Levels to help inform masking recommendations, which is consistent with August 11th CDC updated recommendations
- Aligns correctional facilities with current CDC recommendations (CDC updated guidance on May 3rd) which notes that correctional facilities may make masks optional when CDC community levels are low.
- Aligns recommendations for homeless shelters, emergency shelters and cooling centers to the above recommendation for correctional facilities, i.e., also shifts from requirements to masking recommendations in these settings when CDC community levels are low
- Updated guidance is effective September 23, 2022.