[NAGDU] New TSA screening

Tue Mar 7 20:08:12 UTC 2017

I must say they stay in the private area way to long for me.
Yes I had this done when I traveled to Arizona.
On the dog,, she didn't care for the wond at all.
Where they finally said she will be fine.
She didn't wish to stand for all of this keeping on the move all of the time.
Especially when they wanted to wond the underneath of tail.
Once they left us alone she was fine.
Original message:
> Marion, will our guide dogs get a more invasive screening also?

> Becky and a snoring Tomasso
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> Subject: [NAGDU] New TSA screening

> Bloomberg article published in today's online version of the "Seattle
> Times."

> While few have noticed, U.S. airport security workers long had the option of
> using five different types of physical pat-downs for the screening line.
> Those have been eliminated, replaced instead with one universal approach.
> This time, you will notice.

>  The new touching - for those selected to have a pat-down - will be more
> invasive in what the federal agency describes as a more "comprehensive"
> physical screening, according to a Transportation Security Administration
> (TSA) spokesman.


>  Denver International Airport, for example, notified employees and flight
> crews Thursday that the "more rigorous" searches "will be more thorough and
> may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before."


>  "I would say people who in the past would have gotten a pat-down that
> wasn't involved will notice that the [new] pat-down is more involved," TSA
> spokesman Bruce Anderson said Friday. The shift from the previous,
> risk-based assessment about which pat-down procedure an officer should use
> was phased in over the past two weeks after tests at smaller airports, he
> said.


>  The TSA screens about 2 million people daily at U.S. airports. The agency
> doesn't track how many passengers are subject to pat-down searches after
> they pass through an imaging scanner. People who decline to use this
> screening technology are automatically subject to physical searches.

>  While passengers may find the process more intrusive than before, the new
> procedure isn't expected to increase overall airport-security delays.
> However, "for the person who gets the pat-down, it will slow them down,"
> Anderson said.

>  The change is partly the result of the agency's study of a 2015 report that
> criticized aspects of TSA screening procedures. That audit, by the
> Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General, drew headlines because
> airport officers had failed to detect handguns and other weapons. Another
> change prompted by the report was the TSA decision to end its "managed
> inclusion" program by which some everyday travelers were allowed to use
> PreCheck lanes to speed things up at peak times.


>  Physical screening has long been one of the traveling public's strongest
> dislikes related to airport-security protocols. The TSA conducts all
> pat-downs with an officer of the same sex, and allows for a passenger to
> request a private area for the screening and to have a witness. Likewise,
> the traveler can request that the pat-down occur in public view.

>  The new policy also applies to airline pilots and flight attendants,
> classified as "known crew members," who generally receive less scrutiny at
> checkpoints. The TSA conducts random searches of these employees, and
> airlines this week had inquired about whether their employees would be
> subject to more frequent pat-downs. The number of random searches for
> airline crews isn't changing, Anderson said, although airport employees may
> face more random checks.

> "Sometimes it's random, sometimes they're consistent based on the door you
> enter," he said of the searches of workers with airport ID badges.
> "Sometimes those measures call for a pat-down."


> In their notice, Denver airport officials said employees are subject to
> search at random locations. "If a pat down is required as part of the
> operation, badged employees will be required to comply with a TSA officer's
> request to conduct a full body pat down."


> In December, a CNN political commentator, Angela Rye, posted an article
> online describing her "humiliation" during a TSA agent's search. Rye wrote
> in graphic detail about the pat-down of her genitals during a search at the
> Detroit Metro Airport before a flight to New York.

>  TSA officials didn't immediately address whether the new universal pat-down
> protocol will mandate touching of passenger genitals.


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