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DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI - A 27-year-old Muslim woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the Dearborn Heights Police Department after she says police violated her right to religious freedom, WJBK reports.

According to the report, Malak Kazan had to remove her hijab after she was arrested for a warrant following a traffic stop in November 2014.

Kazan never appeared in court after she let her driver's license expire, and she was arrested on two warrants out for her arrest at the time.

The Dearborn Heights Police told WJBK that things like hats and hijabs could conceal items that could harm the police or the suspects, and that's why she was asked to remove the headdress.

Kazan's attorney Amir Makled said otherwise.

She was asked to remove the hijab at the time of the booking photo, Makled said, and officer safety couldn't have been a cause for concern.

"Your religious freedoms are not stripped at the jailhouse door," Makled said, according to WJBK. "It's part of the (canons) of their faith to wear a head scarf. For her to have to removed in front of a non-relative male, would be a non-pleasant experience for her."

According to the report, there were no female officers present during the booking, but Dearborn Heights Police Chief Lee Garvin said it is procedure to have Muslim women remove the hijab in the presences of a female officer.

Sometimes there just aren't enough female officers in the station for that to happen.

Kazan is suing to change the department's policy of requiring women to remove the hijab for booking photographs.

Read the full report here.

Ian Thibodeau is the entertainment and business reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. He can be reached at ithibode@mlive.com, or follow him on Twitter.