Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
If I give consent and permission, who is to say the search can not be photographed? It is my search. If you are patting me down in the public area, I could grant that permission. What makes this different?
If it is the possible embarrassment, save it, it will not embarrass me. I think it may be the embarrassment to the TSA that is the concern. Or is there statute or regulation that does not permit it?
I am sorry to make this such a sticking point, and I hope it never, ever comes up.
This is one of those cases where photographing the screening process in detail is not allowed. You can take pictures of the checkpoint but if you get close to the methods and means that are used and you capture them, that is not allowed. You are going to be asking to film three people: (the passenger, the TSA officer and the TSA officer witness.) So for you to consent is fine, the other two wont and if they could it would not matter because filming or taping the process could lead to revealing techniques and other things that could lead to exploitation of the process. In other words (and this makes people on here scream) it is SSI. Therefore it is against Federal law.