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PTravel
Wrong. These laws apply to teachers. Teachers are professionals who are trained to recognize the signs of child abuse. They are also assigned this responsibility by statute. TSOs are not professionals who are trained to recognize the signs of child abuse, and they are NOT assigned this responsibility by statute. And they are not indemnified in the event of good faith intervention.
Dealing first with your last paragraph in your post, are you stating the American Humane organization is "wrong" as quoted below?
http://www.americanhumane.org/about-...e-neglect.html
In most states, professionals who work with children in any capacity are identified as “mandated reporters” and are required by law to report suspected child abuse or neglect. Approximately 18 states define mandated reporters more broadly to include any citizen who suspects that a child is being abused or neglected.
Quoting from the information you quote in your post, the below certainly does not seem to this individual to support your statements about limitations, most notably what I have bolded. Child abuse is a criminal act is it not and transporting an abducted child is also a criminal act is it not?
The Supreme Court has not directly ruled on the reasonableness of domestic airport checkpoint searches. F.3d at 958; United States v. Hartwell, 436 F.3d 174, 178 (3d Cir. 2006). This is so because they are conducted as part of a general regulatory scheme to prevent passengers from carrying weapons or explosives onto airplanes rather than as part of a criminal investigation to obtain evidence of criminal activity.
The mere fact that contraband other than weapons or explosives is found during an airport screening search, however, does not itself render the search unconstitutional.
More generally, the TSA is responsible for creating “regulations to protect passengers and property on an aircraft . . . against an act of criminal
violence or aircraft piracy.”
The sole function of TSA is to, "to protect passengers and property on an aircraft operating in air transportation or intrastate air transportation against an act of criminal violence or aircraft piracy," which is the administrative search is limited to this function AND TSOs are not, by definition, law enforcement officers.
Protection Against Violence and Piracy.— The Under Secretary shall prescribe regulations to protect passengers and property on an aircraft operating in air transportation or intrastate air transportation against an act of criminal violence