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Old Nov 10, 2010 | 2:10 pm
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janetdoe
 
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Originally Posted by RichardKenner
The TSA is never allowed to detain you. An LEO can detain you if he has sufficient cause to believe that a crime may have been committed or is about to be committed.
1. Is refusing to undergo a search considered "sufficient cause"?

2. If the TSA can't detain me, then why can't I just blow by them, walk through a metal detector and walk to my gate? What resources do they have to make me 'obey' them? Is the only thing they can do to call the local police?

3. On what basis can the local police detain me and keep me from getting on my flight? Or force me to leave airport premises?

4. Can the LEO force me to submit to a search?
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