https://www.foxnews.com/us/contra-costa-da-diana-becton-california-democrat-coronavirusDiana Becton, the district attorney of California’s Contra Costa County charged with enforcing state and local coronavirus regulations, allegedly violated those rules over the summer to host a wedding reception in her Bay Area backyard, according to local reports.
She left notes for her neighbors warning that there would be "20 to 30" extra cars parked in the area during the Aug. 1 celebration, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. It happened while the county was being monitored for a high risk of COVID-19 transmission.
She told the paper she’d held a "small, outdoor wedding and adhered to state and county restrictions" – although those rules did not permit wedding receptions. Although witnesses reportedly saw guests wearing masks and socially distancing, food and alcohol were served, and music allegedly played well into the evening.
"She would have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not know that our governor and our state health officials have strongly discouraged, and at times banned, gatherings of any size," Harmeet Dhillon, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, told Fox News on Sunday.
Especially since Becton's office last year became part of a task force to crack down on violators of state and county coronavirus guidelines.
"We do take these complaints very seriously," she told county officials in mid-November, according to local news site Danville San Ramon, as her office was "noticing an uptick" in complaints about people flouting mask and social distancing rules.
Becton told the Chronicle that she did not knowingly violate rules at the time and that no one at her event contracted the virus.
