California officials recently conducted so-called “mask raids” at preschools in the San Diego area, triggering outrage among parents who learned their toddlers had been separated from adults and interviewed by state regulators.

Just a little more than a week before California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was caught in violation of mask rules, officials with the California Department of Social Services visited each of Aspen Leaf Preschool’s three San Diego-area locations after being tipped off that the preschools were skirting the statewide mask mandate.