South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is filing a suit against the City of Columbia over its institution of a mask mandate in schools.
“The real question is ‘Can the city enforce the ordinance that they wrote?’ That’s something that has to be interpreted by the courts,” said State Senator John Scott of Columbia.
Mask mandate or not? Politicians disagree on state law ahead of next week’s first day of school
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson entered his response to a lawsuit filed by a University of South Carolina professor over Wilson’s opinion that a university mask mandate violated state law.
South Carolina Attorney General says the school mask mandate passed last week by the Columbia City Council goes against state law.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson wants the federal government to hang up on robocalls for good. Wilson joined 51 state attorneys general in asking the FCC to move up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement Caller ID technology.
According to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Fairfield man was arrested Thursday for charges related to the sexual exploitation of minors.
The University of South Carolina is reversing its decision last week to require masks inside campus buildings. This comes after South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson wrote a legal opinion saying the university could not legally require mask wearing on campus.
The University of South Carolina can’t lawfully require students and staff to wear face coverings on campus this fall, despite increasing cases of coronavirus, thanks to recent legislative action, according to the state’s top prosecutor. Last week, university officials announced that they would require “face coverings to be worn at all times inside all campus buildings, unless you are in your own residence hall room, private office or you are eating inside campus dining facilities.”
According to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Gaston man was arrested this week and faces 20 total charges for the sexual exploitation of minors.
