Originally Posted by
studentff
If I had to guess, RBS is "Risk Based Screening."
On the surface this sounds like a baby step in the right direction (a big step would be implementing this policy for everyone or nearly everyone), but I have little doubt that TSA will find a way to screw it up. Things that came to mind immediately:
Individuals under 18 are not required to provide ID, so age will be "determined" by TSA, right? Are they going to, "out of an abundance of caution," decide that anyone bigger than a toddler might be 12 and is thus not exempt?
I do understand what you are saying, yet TSA already has procedures where age is based upon what a person appears to be and when stated by that person. In fact, you you site identification: well no one 18 and under has to provide identification at TDC and it has been that way since the beginning - and it already works well. Juice/certain foods are allowed for children of an "apparent" age, and that works pretty well too.
Again, those policies allow for 2 different things to happen: the passenger/parent to say they are under a certain age, without providing proof, and the screener to, lets say, guess, the age (and I can tell you most if not all screeners guess in favor of the child).
So all the proof is that a policy like this works.