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SACRAMENTO - In response to widespread immigration raids in Los Angeles, California lawmakers have passed legislation that would ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while carrying out operations.

What we know:

It is the first such bill to be approved by a state legislature, though Democrats in Congress and lawmakers in several states, including Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, have introduced similar proposals calling for mask bans for law enforcement officers.

California’s legislation, approved in the Democratic-controlled Legislature on Thursday, is among a number of bills state lawmakers were considering this year in response to the immigration raids.

The bill would prohibit neck gator, ski masks and o

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