Challenging the Executive Rule

Governor Cuomo’s Thanksgiving executive order only allows for a maximum of ten people to gather---even in your home.

Governor and law enforcement.

Another day closer to thanksgiving.... and the sheriff is standing by the decision to not enforce the governor's rule that only ten people can gather in a home.

Newschannel 2's kirk tupaj tells us how this battle is playing out.

(((((((((no super for the gov))))))) no more than 10 rule people find intrusive.

You're telling me in my house i can't have more than 10 people?

It's none of your business what i do in my home.

Now of course it is.

Laws apply in your home.

The governor is standing by his executive order to limit the number of people that can assemble even within the confines of their own home, but sheriff departments are refusing to enforce the rule.

They're even siting new police reform rules written by the governor's office.

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None sot: sheriff rob maciol, oneida county the police should not be involved in responding to non-criminal conduct.

Ok.

Well having you know a certain amount or exceeding the number of people at your thanksgiving table to me, and i don't think there's anyone that would argue, that's a non-criminal matter.

So in his own guideline that we're supposed to be following when we reinvent our police and reform our police, we should only be responding to criminal matters.

(((((((((no super for the gov))))))) you have sheriff's upstate who have said i'm not going to enforce the law.

Now how a law enforcement officer says i choose not to enforce that law, i believe that law enforcement officer violates his or her constitutional duty.

But the sheriff says there are only three ways police can legally enter a person's house sot: sheriff rob maciol, oneida county number one is if we're invited.

We knock on the door and you let us in.

Number 2 if there's an emergency situation or some type of circumstance that's going on inside there.

Someone called in there's shots fired, someone's screaming for help behind a closed door, there's smoke pouring out one of the windows.

We don't need a search warrant then.

Ok.

We break in.

We breach the house any way we need to to get in to help someone, and then the third and final one is a search warrant.

(((((((((no super for the gov))))))) you can't pick and choose, and if that's the way you run your law enforcement agency, i don't consider it a law enforcement agency.

So god bless you, but don't ask me for help.

Sot: kirk tupaj it's hard to know exactly what the governor meant when he said "don't ask me for help", but the sheriff believes it will be some kind of cut in state funding for this area.

In oriskany, i'm kirk tupaj reporting for newschannel 2.> state senator james tedisco