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Apr 12, 2014, 1:15 pm

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Originally Posted by alexmt

I understand that, but that's not the letter of the rule. It clearly refers to a driver licence as "state-issued" and a DC licence is not, in fact, state issued. A clear and obvious oversight? Absolutely. But imagine you're new to the high stress job of protecting the nation's air travel infrastructure, bla bla bla and all you remember is "state-issued photo ID... oh ...., DC isn't a state... is that okay? *pauses* They GOTTA be okay with DC it's the country's capital but... better apologise and ask the boss just to be 100% sure"

In all, NOT a huge deal.

What I posted is the letter of the rule. Read the TSA SOP guides if you can. It's as I said.

What happened to the DC DL user is a substantive problem -- it shows that the TSA has front-line characters who don't follow the TSA SOP, including those SOPs about ID. The TSA rejection of a DC DL violates the letter of the rule.

I posted straight out of the TSA internal guide.

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