A South Bay church is countersuing Santa Clara County after the state imposed $2.8 million in fines on the place of worship for ignoring COVID-19 lockdown orders, according to a report.
is part of the larger Santa Clara County. It was the first county in the country to declare a shelter-in-place order in 2020, ordering citizens to remain in their homes unless engaging in an essential activity, like buying groceries or going to the hospital.
A spokesperson for Santa Clara County told The Free Press they "issued notices of violation to hundreds of entities that violated the orders, including card rooms, and virtually all of them came into compliance. It would not be appropriate to allow Calvary, an entity that continually violated the law and placed the community at severe risk… to receive more favorable treatment over all those that made the sacrifices to comply with the law.
The following Sunday, church services were held. They were also held every Sunday after that. It was the only Santa Clara County church to defy the lockdown openly.San Jose church continues to ignore county health orders Over at least three months, agents watched the church through a chain link fence owned by a church next door. The adjacent church had permitted the state to let law enforcement station themselves on their property.
Daniel Ho, a Stanford law professor with a public health data analysis background, was allegedly hired to analyze the data results. He was paid $800 an hour, while the officials monitoring the church were paid $219 per hour.
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