A proposed ordinance regulating the use of face coverings in Stockton is moving forward to a full city council vote after the Legislation and Environmental Committee decided to unanimously forward the measure for consideration.
If adopted, the ordinance would amend the Stockton Municipal Code to make it unlawful for anyone to wear a “face-covering ski mask” in public when the intent is “to conceal their identity in a way that provokes fear, intimidation, threats, or violence.” The measure includes exceptions for medical, religious, occupational, and cultural uses of face coverings
During a June council meeting, Vice Mayor Jason Lee held up suspect sketches and described a broad-daylight graduation-day holdup of an eighth-grader wearing a money lei…