Las Vegas Sends Out ‘Compliance Ambassadors’ To Ensure Businesses Obeying COVID Directives

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Nov 17, 2020

Just when you thought the wackiness of this whole coronavirus pandemic couldn’t possibly reach any higher levels of creepiness in its Orwellianism, along comes Las Vegas to help push things to a whole new level.

According to new reports, last Friday the city of Las Vegas issued a reminder for businesses located in the city that they would be sending out “compliance ambassadors” to check in and ensure they were being obedient to Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s COVID-19 directives.

The city’s official Twitter account posted, “Our business license & compliance ambassadors continue to visit 300 businesses per day every day, to ensure they are following @GovSisolak’s recent directive to help keep workers and visitors safe.”

via Daily Wire:

On October 2, the city of Las Vegas offered an update on coronavirus restrictions for businesses, arguing that the city’s “compliance ambassadors” were simply “observing behaviors and verifying whether violations are occurring.” The city stated:

We will continue to enforce and to educate businesses about the governor’s recent directive and social distancing requirements. Beginning this weekend, the city’s business license officers and compliance ambassadors will visit 2 percent of the city’s businesses, or about 300 businesses per day every day, to ensure they are following the governor’s recent directive. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak recently signed Emergency Directive 033, adjusting statewide standards on gatherings and other areas. The new directive changes the previous limitation on gatherings from 50 people to 250 people or 50 percent of occupancy, whichever is less. This applies to both indoor and outdoor venues, including houses of worship.

Compliance ambassadors are not enforcing the directive; they are observing behaviors and verifying whether violations are occurring. If there is an enforcement action that needs to be taken, that will be done by a business license officer. The compliance ambassadors are existing city employees; they are not new hires or newly added positions. These employees have been reassigned to the ambassadors program temporarily from their normal department. These ambassadors have been trained to identify whether any violations of the directive are occurring and to educate the business owners. If these ambassadors observe a clear violation of the directive, they will refer that to a business license officer who will then visit the business and address the violation. Business license officers have the ability to write citations and issue fines.

By using ambassadors to observe behaviors, business license officers are able to focus 100 percent of their time on addressing violations, to help keep customers and employees safe.

According to local media outlets, four businesses were given citations and fines for not complying with coronavirus workplace safety measures.

“Four Nevada businesses were cited and fined last week for failing to comply with coronavirus workplace safety measures. The Nevada Division of Industrial Relations (DIR) on Monday said that three Las Vegas businesses and a Pahrump winery were issued citations and fines resulting from observations conducted Sept. 28 through Oct. 2. … Welding Nevada in Las Vegas was fined $4,048 … LMG, LLC and Hel LLC dba Sea Salt in Las Vegas were fined $6,073 and $4,858 respectively… the third business Pahrump Valley Winery was fined $8,501,” Fox 5 Vegas said in their report.

“If the observed violations are substantiated, a notice of citation and penalty can be issued. The maximum penalty of $134,940 can be assessed to an employer that willfully violates the provisions of the effective directives and guidance,” the report continued.

You know, the left has been paranoid about President Donald Trump being Hitler and his supporters being Nazis, none of which is true, and yet, these “compliance ambassadors,” which seem to function a whole lot like brown shirts, seem to have slipped under the radar.

The left just wants to destroy the economy so bad, to see the free market collapse so they can replace it with a socialist system, they’re willing to do anything to help make it happen.

They’ll destroy it through these lockdowns, or through the refusal of businesses to comply with draconian measures they issue like edicts from a monarch.

It’s all gone too far.