Does that mean that if the TSA opens your luggage without you being present, they are violating federal regulations and could there be an investigation by the local police department if you have proof someone opened your luggage.

I personally have seen at the TSA luggage scanner in the public area in AA’s terminal in LGA the screener just glance at the screen when something alarms and that item is shown in red, they did not look carefully at the screen looking for anything else, so they just grabbed the luggage off of the machine and took to their inspection station and opened it. So if there was a weapon it the luggage, they would not have spotted it until they opened the luggage.

Mr. Elliott