STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City will not enforce the COVID vaccine mandate for the NYPD after a judge’s ruling last week, according to a report.
The New York Post reported that unvaccinated NYPD officers who have been denied a religious or health exemption will be allowed to remain on the job as the city appeals the court ruling.
Last Friday, the city told the Police Benevolent Association that it planned to continue to enforce the mandate despite Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank’s ruling, according to the post.
That changed Tuesday when the union threatened to get the supreme court to hold the city’s Corporation Counsel in contempt, the New York Post reported.
The vaccine mandate for NYPD officers has been the subject of a number of legal challenges since it was put in place in October 2021.
Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesman for the Law Department, told the Post that the NYPD was barred from firing or placing the unvaxxed on leave until the city’s appeal is ruled on due to “technical legal reasons.”
The reinstatement of fired cops, which the ruling also ordered, was paused until the appeal is determined, Paolucci added.
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