Originally Posted by
Caradoc
Perhaps the SOP has changed since then, but the comments on the HomelandSecurityTheater comic strip (which I believe Bill Forster writes!) indicate that TSA clerks were at least at one time under orders to count cash passing through their checkpoint.
Definitely it
was SOP, that's why Bierfeldt was hassled. The case was settled because TSA agreed to change the policy. What has actually filtered through to the front line, I can't say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-..._b_352660.html
What a difference a lawsuit makes... Eight days before the government's response was due in our case, TSA issued a new policy directive making clear that its safety screening procedures would be strictly limited to passenger searches for the purpose of safeguarding flight safety. In combination with other directives issued in the wake of our lawsuit, TSA's policy now makes clear that passengers should not experience the kind of suspicionless detention and questioning I had been subjected to.