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TSA changes rules for who must go through body scanner
The Transportation Security Administration can now mandate some passengers go through a body scanner even if the travelers ask to opt out and get a full body pat down instead. Mandated screening for some passengers would be "warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security," the TSA said in a document updating the protocol. The change is coming at a time of heightened concern about aviation security and terror plots against commercial aviation. (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I see accounts in the media about TSA security considerations detecting weapons, but does any one know if there has been any proof that they have averted a hijack situation with the confiscations?
I work for TSA and here is a partial email all TSA employees received at the end of December about 2015 being a successful year.
"This year, our frontline workforce screened more than 695 million passengers, 1.5 billion carry-on bags, 450 million checked bags, and 12.9 million airport employees. Our officers prevented 119,000 prohibited items from getting onto airplanes, including 2,500 guns (an average of 6 guns in carry-on bags per day)."
By the way, prohibited items in this case are weapon like items (knives, bats, any kind of item that is on the prohibited list on TSA.GOV site. They are not talking about your over sized liquids, gels and aerosols.
There are new screening procedures that involve certain people who alarm in a certain way in a body scanner. NO ONE at TSA have told me or anyone else that people can no longer opt out from being body scanned. Media is blowing this out of reality.
"This year, our frontline workforce screened more than 695 million passengers, 1.5 billion carry-on bags, 450 million checked bags, and 12.9 million airport employees. Our officers prevented 119,000 prohibited items from getting onto airplanes, including 2,500 guns (an average of 6 guns in carry-on bags per day)."
By the way, prohibited items in this case are weapon like items (knives, bats, any kind of item that is on the prohibited list on TSA.GOV site. They are not talking about your over sized liquids, gels and aerosols.
There are new screening procedures that involve certain people who alarm in a certain way in a body scanner. NO ONE at TSA have told me or anyone else that people can no longer opt out from being body scanned. Media is blowing this out of reality.
It not the TSA people that are getting the hassle as you are just doing what your are employed to do. It the governmental issues.
I work for TSA and I can't disclose any specifics but I can say that as of today very little has changed in regard to the opt outs. CNN totally is making it seem like it was a 180 degree change. It is not. It only affects certain people in specific situations.
Wow. You "personal freedom" guys don't get it, do you? When you purchase an airline ticket, you enter into a contract with a private entity, not the government. As a condition of that contract, the airline mandates that the TSA checks be performed (Even though the government has told them they have to do it) before you are allowed to use their service. You agree to those terms when you pay for your ticket. if you want to back out of the deal, you can. Just return the ticket.
You know the terms going in, and knowing those terms you complain about having to follow the rules. That's like kicking a field goal and then complaining that it's only worth 3 points. Don't like it? Score a touchdown or punt or go for it on 4th down.
Personally, I don't enjoy the hassles and the indignity. But you know what? I knew it was coming. If I wasn't willing to put up with it, I would have found a different way to travel. I have nothing to worry about from the TSA because I don't do bad things. I submit because I want to ride on an airplane. I could travel by car, bus, train, boat, whatever, and avoid the TSA if I thought the scans and searches were too invasive. I don't, because I don't.
And don't get me started on Jim Bob and his .45 Auto in a confined space full of tired, sweaty, irritable, drunk people. Jim Bob ties one on in coach and the next thing you know we're headed for an emergency landing at KBFE because the idiot shot out a window.
You know the terms going in, and knowing those terms you complain about having to follow the rules. That's like kicking a field goal and then complaining that it's only worth 3 points. Don't like it? Score a touchdown or punt or go for it on 4th down.
Personally, I don't enjoy the hassles and the indignity. But you know what? I knew it was coming. If I wasn't willing to put up with it, I would have found a different way to travel. I have nothing to worry about from the TSA because I don't do bad things. I submit because I want to ride on an airplane. I could travel by car, bus, train, boat, whatever, and avoid the TSA if I thought the scans and searches were too invasive. I don't, because I don't.
And don't get me started on Jim Bob and his .45 Auto in a confined space full of tired, sweaty, irritable, drunk people. Jim Bob ties one on in coach and the next thing you know we're headed for an emergency landing at KBFE because the idiot shot out a window.
Considering I have recently been Paris, Frankfurt, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand and none of them had a body scanner. Just the standard items in the tray and baggage through x-ray, walk through detector wand and only one pat down in Fankfurt because German could not read a doctors note.
So it seems the US TSA is heavily spending tax dollars and other countries are doing whats actually necessary
So it seems the US TSA is heavily spending tax dollars and other countries are doing whats actually necessary
Oops I lie - Malaysia had finger scanners.