California’s New ‘Blueprint’ for Reopening the State’s Economy
On August 28, 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced California’s new reopening plan: The Blueprint for a Safer Economy (the Blueprint). The Blueprint is the most significant change to the state’s reopening plans since Governor Newsom halted reopening due to a surge in COVID-19 cases earlier this summer.
The Blueprint
Prior to the Blueprint, California relied on its county monitoring list to determine which activities and businesses were not safe to resume. The Blueprint completely revamped the monitoring list in favor of a colored-coded, four-tier framework focused on which counties are safe to continue reopening. Of the four tiers, tier one (purple) is the most restrictive and tier four (yellow) is the least restrictive.
As of August 31, 2020, the Blueprint’s effective date, most California counties were in Tier 1.
