NYPD to allow religious headgear in mug shots after lawsuit
The NYPD will stop making people who have been arrested remove their religious headwear for mug shots as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.
The initial plaintiffs, two Muslim women and an advocacy group, had filed the federal lawsuit in 2018, with another two Muslim women filing later that year.
They all said they had been forced to remove their hijabs by officers as part of being photographed after being arrested.