New York City has agreed to let a Muslim correction officer wear a kufi on the job in a settlement announced Wednesday. Abdus Samad N. Haqq of Brooklyn was the named plaintiff in a federal lawsuit that claimed the city was violating the U.S. Constitution by refusing to make religious accommodations to officers who work for the Department of Correctional Services. The settlement marks an end to the agency's policy of refusing to grant any religious accommodations to state correction officers.
May 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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New York City has agreed to let a Muslim correction officer wear a kufi on the job in a settlement announced Wednesday.
Abdus Samad N. Haqq of Brooklyn was the name plaintiff in a federal lawsuit that claimed the city was violating the U.S. Constitution by refusing to make religious accommodations to officers who work for the Department of Correctional Services.
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