The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and the law firm of Carlton Fields secured a settlement from the city of Douglasville, Ga. today on behalf of a Muslim woman who was told she could not enter a municipal courtroom unless she removed her religious headgear and was jailed for contempt of court and forced to remove her headscarf when she protested.
According to today’s settlement, Douglasville has adopted a screening policy allowing people who enter the courthouse wearing a religious headcovering the option to be screened in a private area by an officer of the same gender and ensures that people who wear religious headcoverings will not be forced to remove it in public and may wear their religious headcoverings in the courtroom. [American Civil Liberties Union] Read more [via Islamophobia Watch]
