Originally Posted by
Always Flyin
You might want to take a look at:
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...10/0410226.pdf
"We have held that airport screening searches, like the one at issue here, are constitutionally reasonable administrative searches because they are 'conducted as part of a general regulatory scheme in furtherance of an administrative purpose, namely, to prevent the carrying of weapons or explosives aboard aircraft, and thereby to prevent hijackings.'"
While that case dealt with initial screening, do you really think courts will not give the TSA similar authority throughout the entire secure area (particularly because so many airport employees enter it without screening)?
That judgment appears to have been issued in 2007. Have there been any judgments issued since the beginning of the euphemistically and IMHO
inaccurately named pat-downs? I have the impression that the extent to which the search may be excessively invasive is a question yet to be settled. If for example the TSA implemented mandatory strip searches it's hard to believe a court would uphold them. I'm guessing courts would settle on some line in between wanding and strip searches for what constitutes an appropriate administrative search or am I wrong?
I'm not debating the point (I'm not qualified) but simply asking the question.
