(Insider Louisville) A Muslim woman arrested during an immigration protest last summer has sued Louisville Metro Corrections and the city, asserting that the forced removal of her hijab for her published mug shot violated her constitutional rights, as well as state and federal laws protecting religious freedom.
Clara Ruplinger was one of the “Heyburn Nine” arrested … last July when they chained themselves together to block the elevators 11 floors below a federal immigration court in protest of the Trump administration’s family separation policy at the southern border.
As she told Insider Louisville in November, male corrections officers forced Ruplinger to remove her headscarf for her mug shot, despite her repeated pleas that this would violate her religious beliefs. The mug shot was then published online by Metro Corrections and used by a local television station.
