COVID-19: Holcomb orders store signs requiring masks. What if Lafayette customers don’t comply?

LAFAYETTE – With Gov. Eric Holcomb calling on businesses to post signs about mask-wearing – and then enforcing it as COVID-19 cases rise – what advice did Tippecanoe County officials offer on dealing with potential disputes?

Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski said the city’s police stood ready to help if things escalate.

“We’re not going to be able to come – I want to make it clear – for everyone person in a store that sees somebody else without a mask on,” Roswarski said Wednesday during a session where he and others called on the community’s sense of civic duty to slow a coronavirus spread.

“We can’t possibly to that,” Roswarski said.

But he said that if store management couldn’t get someone to comply, police were prepared to deal with trespass cases or for times when the request turned into a confrontation.