"Forcing Ms. Fellig - or any married, ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who wears a head covering - to remove [their] head covering in public is akin to forcing a secular person to strip naked in front of strangers, carrying all the same shame, humiliation, and abasement."
"State law forbids photos which 'obscure' a person's face or make identification difficult, but Fellig claims her hat and wig were not covering her face."
"Ms. Fellig was so disturbed by the prospect of removing her head covering in public that she contemplated..."
A Brooklyn mom, Sara Fellig, was compelled by DMV workers to remove her religious head covering for a driver's license photo, which she described as a coerced violation of her faith. Fellig, who was accompanied by her sick child, protested the demand, asserting that her head covering did not obscure her face. Despite state law allowing exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs, the workers insisted she comply, leaving her feeling humiliated and traumatized by the experience.
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