(Detroit News) The city of Ferndale is set to update how they process booking photos to resolve a complaint from a Muslim woman who sued over the removal of her Islamic headscarf after an arrest last year, an advocacy group announced Thursday.
The Oakland County community has reached “a full and satisfactory settlement” with Helana Bowe, who filed a federal lawsuit in October, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter said in a statement.
The settlement includes the city “instituting new policies allowing Muslim women to maintain their hijab when a booking photo is taken and prohibiting cross-gender searches in the absence of an emergency” as well as an undisclosed amount of money, according to the release.
