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96 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/ndalro96 and id is 1 raw text is: COVID-19 AND DOMESTIC TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS Katherine Florey* The strict controls that many jurisdictions, including most U.S. states, established to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have proven difficult to sustain over time, and most places are moving to lift them. Internationally, many plans to ease lockdowns have retained some form of travel restrictions, including the green zone plans adopted by France and Spain, which limit travel between regions with widespread community transmission of COVID-19 and those without it. By contrast, most U.S. states lifting shelter-in-place orders have opted to remove limits on movement as well. This Essay argues that this situation is unwise: it tends to create travel patterns that increase the spread of COVID-19 while at the same time hindering contact tracing and information gathering. While broad quarantines have a complicated and far from perfect record in the United States, more targeted measures are likely within states' constitutional powers to impose, might be more palatable to the public, and could play a significant role in helping to contain the spread of COVID-19. INTRODUCTION Starting in late April and continuing through May and June 2020,2 state and local governments have modified shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders earlier imposed in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. This development has been driven by many forces, including constituent pressure, @ 2020 Katherine Florey. Individuals and nonprofit institutions may reproduce and distribute copies of this Essay in any format at or below cost, for educational purposes, so long as each copy identifies the author, provides a citation to Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, and includes this provision and copyright notice. * Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law. Thanks toJohn Hunt, Kate Kretler, Lisa Ikemoto, and Kelsey Santamaria for helpful comments and to Laura Kurtz for superb research assistance. 1 See Jasmine C. Lee, Sarah Mervosh, Yuriria Avila, Barbara Harvey & Alex Leeds Matthews, See How All 50 States Are Reopening (and Closing Again), N.Y. TIMES, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/states-reopen-map-coronavirus.html (last updated Aug. 14, 2020). 2 See Julie Mazziotta, Coronavirus Surges in Parts of the U.S. After Memorial Day-See What's Happening in Your State, PEOPLE (June 10, 2020, 12:56 PM), https: //people.com/ health/ coronavirus-cases-spiking-21-states-after-memorial-day- reopening/. 1

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