- A trial is set to be held Thursday to determine if a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change his hairstyle, which he and his family say is protected by a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination.
- At issue is whether Darryl George’s monthslong punishment for violating his Houston-area school district’s dress code policy limiting the length of boys’ hair violates the CROWN Act.
- In court documents, the school district maintains its policy does not violate the CROWN Act because the law does not mention or cover hair length.
- “But Allie Booker, George’s attorney, has argued the Texas lawmakers who wrote the CROWN Act had safeguarding hair length in mind as many of the hairstyles protected by the new law require hair to be long.
- Barbers Hill’s hair policy was previously challenged in a May 2020 federal lawsuit filed by two other students.
