Originally Posted by
saizai
I can't ask simply for all documents "relating to" something. That'll get bounced for not giving a clear enough description for them to be able to find the documents I want with a reasonable amount of effort.
I can ask for a lot of documents (e.g. "all complaints received by TSA", "all management directives", "all emails sent between X and Y", etc) — but they have to be able to find it easily and know what is or is not responsive to my request.
So, please be more specific.
I would like to know how a screener determines why a person whose purse alarms must undergo a physical pat down. Is it personal choice or a MD or other directive.
Documents that relate to complaints of abusive screening. I suspect TSA is sitting on complaints are taking other steps to quash complaints.
A recent report says that DEA has paid at least one if not more screeners to act as confidential informants against passengers that carried larger amounts of cash. I would like to know if TSA management was aware of this arrangement.
Lastly, I would like all submitted comments to the TSA blog that were not published. That could be reduced to the last 6 months to a year.