Pittsburgh and Allegheny County violated a Muslim woman’s constitutional rights to religious freedom and protection from unreasonable searches when officials forced her last year to remove her hijab, a religious head covering, when taking an ID photo in a municipal courthouse, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday claimed.
Candace Dyer Bey of Moon went to the Pittsburgh Municipal Courts Building on Oct. 31, 2024, to get fingerprinted as part of her “bail conditions” after receiving a citation by mail, according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.
Dyer went to the First Avenue courthouse near Downtown Pittsburgh last October with her daughter…