I asked:
Originally Posted by pmocek
Spotnik, do you have any idea where the public can find such a list of the rules your agency imposes on us if we wish to avoid having our right to travel restricted? Surely this is a simple question to answer. Millions of people are required to follow these rules if they want to pass a U.S. government checkpoint in an airport. Haven't we published the rules that they must follow? If not, how can we expect them to follow the rules?
Spotnik responded:
Originally Posted by
spotnik
I have yet to find anything decent on the TSA website or in any other official publication. There are a number of pieces of information at
www.tsa.gov. There is also a legal post on the TSA blog that offers some information on the legal authority which guides TSA actions.
TSA has not made it simple or easy for people to get the information they need. They are getting better, mostly as a result of frustrated employees and local initiatives, but they are not yet where they need to be. This makes it extremely difficult for people to follow the rules.
Many man hours are spent every day by the
good employees in attempting to assist passengers handle a problem which resulted from not knowing the rules.
Thanks for the pointers, Spotnik, but what I and many others are looking for is not a pile of tips, general guidelines, clues, press releases, and internally-inconsistent and incomplete Web pages, but a list of all the rules we are required by your agency to follow if we wish to avoid having our freedom of movement restricted by that agency.
We have
repeatedly requested this information in comments at the TSA blog, yet no one answers.
How can we be expected to follow TSA's rules if we cannot read them? Are we expected to simply guess what is required of us based on all the often-inconsistent and clearly-incomplete information we are able to gather from anonymous tipsters, TSA press releases, and out-of-date TSA Web pages, then wait for some security guard to tell us whether we guessed correctly or not?