Religious freedom is so important, it is protected by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, a recent lawsuit demonstrates how law enforcement can legally breach that freedom.
Buffalo often looks to New York City for trends that may be heading our way. So when New York s Police Department changed a policy to settle a discrimination lawsuit, WBFO asked Peter Kehoe, an attorney and executive director of the New York State Sheriffs Association, how that change may impact our local police. Generally, each police agency or in the case of jails, each jail agency sets their own policies and procedures, he said.