After lake parties, officials disagree on distancing enforcement

State leaders and local health officials around the Lake of the Ozarks can agree on this: those shoulder-to-shoulder lakeside parties over the weekend were not good.

But they don’t agree at all about who’s in charge of shutting down those kinds of parties.

In remarks at his daily press briefing Tuesday, Gov. Mike Parson said multiple times that local officials are responsible for enforcing the state’s social distancing order, which requires people to stay 6 feet apart in public and says restaurants must adhere to that requirement and others to restart dine-in service.

“It’s the local levels, the local health departments are the ones in charge of that,” Parson told reporters. “I’ve answered that question I don’t know how many times since I’ve been doing interviews.”

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