Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
The courts have held that it's legal for an LEO to ask you to "identify yourself", but that doesn't mean any specific form of ID and the courts have also ruled that any law requiring specific forms of ID (here it's refering to the LEO stop, not what might be required to fly) would be unconstitutional.
Standard INAL disclaimer
A LEO can "ask" you to identify yourself but you do not need to identify yourself to them unless you are in a "stop and identify state". Even then the courts have rulled that you can do so verbally. You do not need to produce ID. It would however be a crime to provide them with a false name.
Originally Posted by
janetdoe
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?
1. This seems to be covered by the 5th amendment. Courts have rulled that refusing a "police" search is not probable cause for an arrest and then a search.
2. Blowing past them could happen but the cops would probably be on you pretty quick or the tsa could attempt to block (non forcably) your access to the secure side of the airport.
3.Police keeping you off your flight no. The TSA can say that they are unable to complete the screening proccess and clear you to the secure side of the airport.
Police forcing you to leave the airport would be fuzzy but they would likley use some sort of trespassing law.
4. You could be Terry stopped by a LEO
police may do a limited search for weapons based on a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the person stopped may be "armed and dangerous.
police may briefly detain a person whom they reasonably suspect is involved in criminal activity.
Anything else you would have to be arrested and "Mirandize"