{"id":665578,"date":"2021-08-20T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665578"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:21:33","slug":"report-illinois-regulators-threaten-doctor-critical-of-govs-school-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-illinois-regulators-threaten-doctor-critical-of-govs-school-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Illinois Regulators Threaten Doctor Critical of Gov\u2019s School Mask Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-illinois-regulators-threaten-doctor-critical-of-govs-school-mask-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665578&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332385283-e1629474014580.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A medical doctor who serves on his local school board is facing an investigation from Illinois regulators over his criticisms of the state&#8217;s mask mandate in schools, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Sports physician Jeremy Henrichs, who is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.k12.il.us\/page\/board-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vice president of the Mahomet-Seymour school board<\/a> in central Illinois, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/illinois\/doctor-illinois-threatening-medical-license-over-mandatory-mask-opposition\/article_4a4f40f6-006e-11ec-a070-a78e30de9e54.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a>&nbsp;Illinois&#8217;s Department of Financial and Professional Regulation of threatening &#8220;my medical licensure unless I expressly support and enforce a mask mandate for all students.&#8221;&nbsp;The school district plans to follow Governor J.B. Pritzker&#8217;s (D.) mandate, but state regulators nevertheless demanded that Henrichs supply &#8220;a detailed statement on your opinion about masks, and whether you support and will enforce a mask mandate based on your elected position as a school board member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are now rallying behind Henrichs. Illinois state senator Chapin Rose (R.), a former prosecutor who counts Henrichs as one of his constituents, filed a complaint with the Illinois inspector general&#8217;s office.&nbsp;Rose <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1rBIxpaUsjypR7bFT6YUG9vrIiS6_PpZB\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a statement to the<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/illinois\/doctor-illinois-threatening-medical-license-over-mandatory-mask-opposition\/article_4a4f40f6-006e-11ec-a070-a78e30de9e54.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center Square<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;that the conduct of Pritzker administration officials amounted to political persecution and may violate laws against threatening a public official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our society cannot both value free and robust debate where all viewpoints are considered and then open \u2018official investigations&#8217; of those who disagree with the point of view of the investigator,&#8221; Rose said.<\/p>\n<p>Henrichs&nbsp;sounded a defiant note on both the mask mandate and the chilling effect the state&#8217;s inquiry will have on public debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The health of our student body is something I place first in my public role,&#8221; he said. &#8220;However, the health of our democratic system is dead if we tolerate the intimidation targeting me and chilling the independence of innumerable other elected public officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical doctor who serves on his local school board is facing an investigation from Illinois regulators over his criticisms of the state&#8217;s mask mandate in schools, according to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}