Originally Posted by
ESpen36
The screeners at SFO are not TSA, they are contractors. If you look carefully, you will see that they are not wearing TSA uniforms or badges.
On the topic of your question, I'm not a lawyer, but I teach for the Red Cross, and we teach our emergency care students that touching a person without consent (either obtained consent or implied consent) constitutes battery.
Same rules apply. Explain process and ask for sore spots, offer private screening under certain conditions. About it.