A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now, his family is suing Texas officials.

The family of Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Saturday against Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton over George's ongoing suspension by his school district for his hairstyle.

George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been serving an in-school suspension since Aug. 31 at the Houston-area school. School officials say his dreadlocks fall below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violate the district's dress code.

George's mother, Darresha George, and the family's attorney deny the teenager's hairstyle violates the dress code, saying his hair is neatly tied in twisted dreadlocks on top of his head.