Pima County's Mandatory Curfew Sparks Contention Between Officials
Download mp3 (7.55 MB)The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to implement a mandatory curfew for residents earlier this week after COVID-19 infections in the county spiked past 1,300 cases per 100,000 residents. The threshold for rolling back the curfew is 100 cases per 100,000 people.
The county has had a voluntary curfew in place since late November, but Pima County officials investigated around 400 area businesses and found about 60 of those to be “seriously noncompliant.”
The vote was contentious.
One county supervisor compared the curfew to “gestapo tactics” and voted against it. Another said not adopting the curfew would represent a “dereliction of duty.”
District 5 Supervisor Betty Villegas voted for the curfew, and The Show spoke with her for more about why.
