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wear a mask and enter through normal channels in the Tax Collector's office. She stated she would make alternative arrangements for my appointment. She said she made arrangements with her staff to bring me in through their back door on 6/5/20 - no entrance there - since I wouldn't wear a mask. I was to wait outside in my car, was told to come in and sit in the lunch room so as not to bother the other mask wearing citizens inside the building in their appointments. I have pictures as I sat in the employee lunch room. I was then sneaked into a back little office where employees had to wait on me there away from their stations because I didn't have a mask. And you tell me masks are only RECOMMENDED? I spoke to several employees about the mask situation and documented that as well. I expressed my being upset to be treated this way and that this went against my rights and was unlawful with Carole Jean who was very kind and seemed very sympathetic but said this was her mandate. Carole told me to call her again if I needed anything else. Her staff was very kind and I wrote a nice note about it. She noted that she did not want to violate my right to get a CCP. 4) Unfortunately, right after I paid for that CCP and completed it. I was sent a letter from Kia because I paid off my car. It told me for a paper title, I, yes, had to go to the Tax Collector's office again just a few days later, so I called Carole Jean 6/8/20. I left a message. I received a call back from Lori Bloom who said Ms. Jordan asked her to contact me to make arrangements. I was told the same thing that I could not enter. Sebastian nor Vero without a mask, and she could not do the same thing we did at Sebastian for title work for some strange reason. She said she could mail and wait for me to mail documents to her or I had to complete documents online then print them and come to the Vero Beach office, far out of my way, and could NOT come into the office, but needed to go into the drive through instead due to my not wearing a mask. This is a manager of the SAME office wherein that I was told, in person, that I could not enter it by the Sheriff Deputy on 6/3/20. I did as I was told but I expressed to Lori this was not right and a violation of my rights and our laws. She sympathized also but said she could not change the rules. She waited on my husband and me in a long 1 line in a hot car causing us to drive a lot longer after Sebastian JUST waited on me in the back entrance for non -conformists - 3 business days prior. -I wrote to our commissioners TWICE about this situation and received ZERO information from my Commissioners at -all that I was NOT required to wear a mask into the County offices? That it was only a RECOMMENDATION? You are telling me only NOW that I was NOT required to do so? Shouldn't you, or one of the Commissioners sent a quick email,. this is a RECOMMENDATION and not a REQUIREMENT and of course you can enter your tax collectors' offices? I would like an IMMEDIATE investigation into WHY my rights were violated by at . LEAST 4 members of your Tax Collector's Staff, why you are posting a Sheriff to intimidate and turn people away from an office that I was TOLD by the Property Appraiser to enter and get a disabled permit TWICE - only to find out I was barred entrance due to no mask. I was told this was the reason. I was told I could NOT come in for an appointment without a mask, by TWO offices in our County. Your "Public Health Officer" is going on the internet and stating you MUST CONTINUE TO WEAR MASKS, SOCIAL DISTANCE, etc. So these are CLEARLY being stated as MANDATES and NOT recommendations. I would like an IMMEDIATE clarification to the press and by internet that these are NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY able to be enforced by law enforcement, but merely recommendations, if you are TRULY not trying to bully citizens into a tyrannical state of affairs. I believe MANY will still wear masks, which is their right, but MANY also will NOT and will be healthier for it. NO studies have been done by our State, Federal or 179