Originally Posted by
jackonferry
Precheck lines are pretty lightly used. The staff seem more relaxed than those working other duties. My *guess* is the agent felt pretty confident whose bag it was and therefore did not follow the usual procedure. From their vantage point it may seem kind of silly to do a bag confirmation with relatively small volumes coming through the line.
From my vantage point as a pax, no one should be going in my bag without my knowledge and in my sight. It is an opportunity for theft and there is no justification for it happening at any time.
Twice I've had a TSO attempt to search my bag without my knowledge during a grope and the only reason I found out was because the bag was locked.
At PHX T2, a supervisor told me that TSA SOP does
not require you to be notified of a bag search, nor does it require the search to be conducted where you can watch. The supervisor also told me that this is true not only at the checkpoint but anywhere in the sterile area or onboard the plane.