Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Harmeet K. Dhillon., Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, announced today an agreement with the Village of Atlantic Beach, New York to resolve allegations that it violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by enacting and enforcing zoning provisions that treat religious land uses worse than comparable secular uses.