NYC agrees to $17.5 million settlement over forced removal of hijabs for mugshot photos Men and women who were forced to remove any religious head coverings for NYPD photographs are eligible for approximately $7,000 to $13,000 in settlement payments from the city.

April 5, 2024   

(Courthouse News) New York City agreed on Friday to pay a $17.5 million settlement to resolve a class-action civil rights lawsuit brought by New York women who were forced to remove their religious headscarves in NYPD mugshot photos for the department’s facial recognition database.

Two Muslim women — Jamilla Clark from New Jersey and Arwa Aziz from Brooklyn — along with the Muslim advocacy group Turning Point for Women and Families brought a class-action complaint against the city in 2018, claiming that the New York Police Department’s policy of forcing religious-observant women to remove their hijabs violated the New York State Constitution, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).

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