Coronavirus lockdowns and civil liberties collide in a remote corner of California
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - In Del Norte County, which lies along California's northwestern coast, officials are straddling a tenuous line: On the one side, they are desperate to keep their residents free of a deadly virus raging across the globe; on the other, they can't ignore their community's libertarian tendencies and traditions.
"For people living here, we kind of naturally social distance already," said the county's sheriff, Erik Apperson, who noted that many of the county's residents lived here precisely because they wanted to avoid the crowds and traffic found elsewhere in
