Tagged: Airport security

5:18pm

Mon April 22, 2013
TSA security

Feds delay policy to allow small knives on planes

Credit Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press

Federal officials say they're delaying a policy that would allow passengers to carry small knives, bats and other sports equipment onto airliners.

The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that the policy change has been delayed to accommodate feedback from an advisory committee made up of aviation industry, consumer and law enforcement officials.

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10:11am

Tue October 9, 2012
airport security

Cancer patient asked to lift bandages at Seattle airport

A leukemia patient making what she calls an "end-of-life" trip to Hawaii says she was embarrassed by security agents at the Seattle airport who refused her request for a private pat-down and made her lift her shirt and pull back her bandages.

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2:11pm

Wed January 18, 2012
The Two-Way

TSA backtracks, says screeners were wrong in elderly security search

Originally published on Wed January 18, 2012 11:53 am

Credit Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

The Transportation Security Administration now says security screeners at Kennedy Airport in New York were wrong when they asked two elderly women to show them medical devices that were under their clothing.

In a letter sent to state Sen. Michael Gianaris and acquired by the New York Daily News, the Department of Homeland Security said that there was no evidence the two women were strip-searched, as they claimed, but that their agents did go further than they should have.

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