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While the TSA has implemented some fixes to long airport security lines—like the TSA PreCheck program

a TSA spokesperson told the paper that, regarding having a traveler sue the agency over a missed flight, “I have never encountered anything similar.”

There is no level of incompetence or assholery to which an employee can sink to warrant getting fired.

An Oregon man has been charged with abusive sexual contact after he allegedly groped an unaccompanied teen aboard an American Airlines flight.

She tried to tell TSA agents about her daughter's condition, Shirley Cohen said, but she was kept at a distance by police. Hannah attempted to run away from TSA agents, who then violently accosted the young woman.
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“She's trying to get away from them but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. There was blood everywhere,” said Shirley Cohen, adding that "they grabbed her from both sides, it freaked her out."
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Hannah was arrested and sent to jail, according to WREG.
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a TSA spokesperson issued a statement to WREG indicating that some passengers should set up special screenings.

“Passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation," wrote Sari Koshetz.

“Half of TSA’s [almost 60,000] workforce allegedly committed misconduct from 2013 to 2015,” Perry said, citing data from the report. “Almost half of that number did so repeatedly.”

Gowadia cited internal findings that 99.7 percent of TSA officers have passed the agency’s integrity testing, which she said included things such as an undercover supervisor dropping money at an airport security checkpoint to see whether the TSA personnel return it.

Thursday’s hearing came one year after the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said his undercover operatives were able to slip through airport security with weapons and phony bombs more than 95 percent of the time. They were able to carry weapons or bomb-like material through airport-security checkpoints in 67 of 70 attempts last year
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At that April hearing, the committee heard from Mark Livingston, a program manager in the TSA’s Office of the Chief Risk Officer.

“The refusal to address or to hold senior leaders accountable is paralyzing this agency,” Livingston testified in April. “TSA employees are less likely to report operational security or threat-relevant issues out of fear of retaliation from supervisors who fear further retaliation from their chain of command. No one who reports issues is safe at TSA.”
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Kelly Hoggan was reassigned as head of the agency’s security division after it was revealed that he received bonuses of $10,000 on six different occasions, and three others just above or below that amount, over a 13-month period in 2013 and 2014, according to information collected by the DHS.

Alternative screening usually allows Chille to bypass walking through traditional metal detectors—which can affect pacemakers’ function—and instead go through a different process which usually takes about two minutes. But on Saturday, the family says the TSA process took over an hour as multiple officers, reportedly with guns and tasers, were called in to complete the screening.

“One of the TSA agents told me they’d prevented terrorist attacks using nine-year-old boys with pacemakers and children before, so I laughed and said, ‘Oh when?’ At that point, the TSA agent became very quiet and said, ‘Oh we’re not at liberty to discuss this,’ ” said Bergstrom.

After Chille asked one of the agents what was happening, one reportedly announced that the boy would not be able to fly that day.
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In a statement to FOX 9, TSA Spokesman Nico Melendez said, “TSA is committed to ensuring all travelers are treated with respect and courtesy. TSA is reviewing Saturday’s incident and working to contact the family.”

But Bergstrom says no one has reached out to her directly.

“TSA has not contacted me. No one has apologized. No one has reached out,” she said.

GORDON wrote:I hope he pitches a fit over it.

Eleven passengers walked through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday because the TSA left the area open and unattended, law enforcement sources said.

A security camera captured a metal detector going off three times as the travelers walked through the screening lane, the sources said.

Rather than notifying the police, who are specifically trained to handle those situations, the TSA used its own lesser trained agents to search for the unscreened passengers.

The TSA said it was “confident” the incident represented “no threat to the aviation transportation system.”

“TSA works with a network of security layers both seen and unseen,” the statement said. “Once our review is complete, TSA will discipline and retrain the employees as appropriate.”

TPRJones wrote: I will attempt to fly for the first time in about a decade on Friday. Anything I need to know? Still need to take off my shoes and pants and take all devices out of bags?

TPRJones wrote: I will attempt to fly for the first time in about a decade on Friday. Anything I need to know? Still need to take off my shoes and pants and take all devices out of bags?

Malcolm wrote:

TPRJones wrote: I will attempt to fly for the first time in about a decade on Friday. Anything I need to know? Still need to take off my shoes and pants and take all devices out of bags?

Yes, you still have to unpack and repack half your luggage in front of people who aren't mentally competent enough to operate a slurpee machine and it's still a felony not to do everything they say, because ... well, no one with any sense would otherwise.