Rockford Sun

State Rep. Joe Sosnowski (R-Rockford) has spoken out after a New York City judge barred a father from seeing his child in a custody case because he had not received the COVID-19 vaccine.

Sosnowski took to Twitter to react to the judge's decision.

"Maybe we are going a little too far?" Sosnowski wrote in an Oct. 18 tweet.

The Post Millennial reported that Judge Matthew Cooper wrote in a court order that it "is not in the child's best interest" because of the circumstances surrounding the pandemic.

"The dangers of voluntarily remaining unvaccinated during access with a child while the COVID-19 virus remains a threat to children's health and safety cannot be understated," Cooper wrote in the court document, according to The Post Millennial. "Unfortunately, and to my mind, incomprehensibly, a sizable minority, seizing upon misinformation, conspiracy theories, and muddled notions of 'individual liberty,' have refused all entreaties to be vaccinated."

In other actions, several months back Sosnowski publicly praised "a very successful program" called the Invest in Kids Tax Credit Scholarship program, according to a previous report by the Rockford Sun. 

"It's a great program that's been in existence a couple years, and essentially helps low-income families leave an underperforming district, or maybe a district they don't want to be in, and take those scholarship dollars and choose where they want to go to school," Sosnowski said in a YouTube video. "And they have an option to go to private schools or other schools that would be non-public schools."

That same month, Sosnowski voiced concerns about vaccine passports in Illinois. 

He retweeted a post by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) who is also opposed to vaccine passports, according to NW Illinois News.

In his tweet, DeSantis wrote that Floridians shouldn't be "penalized for rejecting the overreach of local authorities through unnecessary mask mandates."