Los Angeles police do not plan to enforce recently enacted state and local bans that prohibit federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks during enforcement operations, the police chief said Thursday. The sweeping ban on face coverings for most law enforcement officials was signed into law by Newsom in September. A similar ordinance was approved in December by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, affecting law enforcement who operate in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the law enforcement agency that patrols unincorporated Los Angeles County, said that federal law makes the department unable to enforce the ban. As a local law enforcement entity, we do not create federal policy, but we are required to operate within the legal framework it establishes.