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Topic Started: Oct 9 2012, 08:25 PM (269 Views)
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http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/dying-woman-humiliated-sea-tac-airport-security-search-203600921.html
Dying Woman Humiliated at Sea-Tac Airport by Security Search

A young, female leukemia patient says she was humiliated by a security search at Seattle's Sea-Tac airport last week. Security officials lifted bandages from recent surgeries, lifted her shirt to check feeding tubes and broke open an IV bag of saline solution, all in full view of other passengers, according to a report by Seattle's KOMO News.

The Detroit-area woman, Michelle Dunaj, who is dying of leukemia, was taking an "end of life" trip to Hawaii, flying through Seattle. She called her airline, Alaska Air, ahead of time to find out what the procedure would be for traveling with prescription medicines and to request a wheelchair, but, when she got to security, Dunaj said, "nothing happened as it should."

Airport security officials denied Dunaj's requests for a private search, saying, "the location is fine," she told KOMO News. "It shouldn't have happened that way-they should be more respectful of people," she said.

In addition to the violation of Dunaj's privacy during the search, airport security officials opened and contaminated one of Dunaj's saline bags. Dunaj says she chose to speak out about her treatment so that other people don't undergo the same thing.

"When somebody wants to take a trip-what I call an 'end of life' trip because you want to see your family and friends it's even more important than just a trip," she said.

The TSA website lists policies on traveling with medications, including IV bags, and specifies that "TSA officers are trained to perform pat downs in a dignified manner and, at any point, passengers can request a private screening with a witness present." That's not what happened at Sea-Tac. TSA officials have not returned Yahoo! Shine calls for comment.

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TSA Set to Fire 25 NJ Employees

The Transportation Security Administration announced today that it has proposed to fire 25 of its employees and to suspend another 19 at Newark International Airport for alleged misconduct.

A TSA official told ABC News the wrongdoing was related to "individuals violating standard operating procedures for screening checked bags at one of the airport's 25 baggage screening rooms." Another TSA source said the alleged offenses included sleeping on the job and failing to perform continuous random screening process.

The announcement comes days after security screeners at the airport were criticized in an internal TSA document that alleged startling, large-scale security failures. The document was reported by New Jersey's Star Ledger.

However, the TSA official referred ABC News to a Star Ledger story, which said the proposed firings had nothing to do with the recent TSA internal report, but were the culmination of a year-long internal investigation sparked by an alleged theft by a TSA officer.

The TSA said in a statement that it "has a zero tolerance for misconduct in the workplace" and the agency "takes prompt and appropriate action with any employee who does not follow our procedures and engages in misconduct."

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Oct 19 2012, 04:05 PM
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TSA Set to Fire 25 NJ Employees

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However, the TSA official referred ABC News to a Star Ledger story, which said the proposed firings had nothing to do with the recent TSA internal report, but were the culmination of a year-long internal investigation sparked by an alleged theft by a TSA officer.

The TSA said in a statement that it "has a zero tolerance for misconduct in the workplace" and the agency "takes prompt and appropriate action with any employee who does not follow our procedures and engages in misconduct."

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sort of contradicting themselves, aren't they?

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Spoofed Boarding Passes Could Put Terrorists on Planes
By Ben Weitzenkorn, Staff Writer, Security, TechNewsDaily
LiveScience.com – 7 hrs ago

Barcodes on airline boarding passes can be read by readily available barcode readers and contain information used to determine which security protocols a traveler will be subject to, security researchers have discovered.

The worry is that travelers, who can print boarding passes at home up to 24 hours before their flight, could alter the barcodes to determine whether they are subjected to a conventional security check or to the less stringent, expedited-security Pre-Check procedure. That's information that could potentially give an advantage to a would-be terrorist.

Chit-chat about the security flaw has been happening in online forums since July, the Washington Post reported, but the issue only gained serious attention last week when aviation blogger John Butler said he'd discovered that the information stored on the barcode was unencrypted.

"I'm publishing this because I am seriously concerned with boarding-pass security in the United States," Butler wrote after decoding his own boarding pass with a tool available on the Web.

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