The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Shelby County, Tennessee · Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville · Tennessee
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Emergency management authority vested in Shelby County; public health emergency authority of the Shelby County Health Department
- Effective
- 2021-08
- End
- Carried into Health Orders Nos. 25-27; enforced under the G.S. v. Lee injunction from September 3 and 17, 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- No start date could be read from the record.
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child care
- Addressees
- all K-12 schools
- pre-K schools
- daycare facilities
- teachers, staff, students and visitors
- Functions reached
- WF schools and daycares: universal indoor masking compelled
- CB visitors masked
- Collection
- Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville MET-BNA
Operative words
requiring "all K-12, Pre-K schools, and Daycare facilities to require universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to the schools, regardless of vaccination status." (as quoted in S.B. v. Lee, MET-BNA-080 at 15-16, quoting G.S. v. Lee, 2021 WL 4057812, at *3 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 3, 2021))
Enforcement
Health Department enforcement; federal injunction (MET-BNA-084) after September 17, 2021
Notes
G.S. v. Lee, No. 2:21-cv-02552-SHL-atc (W.D. Tenn.), as recited in S.B. v. Lee: after Governor Lee issued Executive Order No. 84 on August 16, 2021, the Department abandoned its mask mandate to the extent of the opt-out, viewing the Governor's order as an executive exception; the September 17, 2021 preliminary injunction restored it ("As a result of Executive Order No. 84, local education agencies... falling under the jurisdiction of Shelby County Health Department's directive could no longer require all students to be masked.").
Retrieval noteExistence, month and operative terms confirmed from federal court opinions read (MET-BNA-080, -084); the directive number (24) and exact issue date not verified.