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Instead of jail time, community service eyed for quarantine violators enablePagination: false FILE PHOTO Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 6) — Those who fail to follow health protocols may only have to do community service instead of facing arrests, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Monday, over a year into the pandemic and with jails already jampacked with quarantine violators. Guevarra bared that he already pitched to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to impose the penalty of community service in localities instead of imprisoning vio...

An organization of lawyers has welcomed the proposal to have violators of health protocols imposed by local government units (LGUs) to just undergo community service as punishment instead of imprisonment or fine.

Persons who are arrested for violating the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) should be penalized only by doing community service, not fine or imprisonment, Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said on Monday, April 5.

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Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → March → 17 → A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols BY REIN TARINAY A year into the pandemic, double standards on how minimum health standards and quarantine protocols are observed remains evident, with government officials and personalities breaching protocols and getting away with it while nearly 600,000 Filipinos, mostly poor, have been warned, ticketed, fined, and charged over quarantine violations. News reports revealed that the rene...