Brooklyn, NY – Correctional Officer Sues for Right to Wear Knitted Hat

Brooklyn, NY – A Muslim correction officer from Brooklyn filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Correctional Services who bars him from wearing his headdress.

Officer Abdus Samad Haqq says the department won’t let him wear his kufi — or knitted hat — on duty even though it carries religious significance for him, so he had the New York Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit.

The Department of Correctional Services had no comment on the lawsuit.