guidelines which states that vaccinated people to not need to wear a mask. sheriff alex villanueva says that s one of the reasons his department will not be enforcing the mandate n. a statement he said, quote: the l.a. county health department has authority to enforce the order, but the underfunded, defunded los angeles county sheriff s department will not expend our limited resources and instead ask for voluntary compliance. also some business owners worry the mask mandate will make it even tougher to get employees back to work especially since the county isn t ruling out other covid restrictions. people don t believe that they re not going to get shut down again, and they don t want to give up those benefits because they don t though what s going to happen, and i think this just furthers that problem and creates confusion, and that s what leads to an inability to forecast and an inability to do business cleanly. reporter: and at this point it s unclear what l.a. county when l.a