Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
Do you have to prove your disability to a TSO when asked? No.
Does a TSO have to allow you to proceed through the checkpoint? No.
Originally Posted by
saizai
Actually… yes they do. And they have to provide reasonable accommodations.
This is an issue I'm actively litigating:
https://s.ai/tsa/legal/bos &
https://s.ai/tsa/legal/sfo
However:
will a TSO blatantly violate the law and make things up, including interrogation or denigration of disabilities and refusal to accommodate? Absolutely yes, IME.
With great respect, saizai --- and I do mean that --- the fact that you are being forced to litigate against TSOs making things up and refusing to accommodate passengers means that there's little distinction between your assertion and mine. To the ordinary passenger, the net effect is the same: there's no guarantee that a passenger's disabilities will be reasonably accommodated at a checkpoint. A "right" that can't be relied upon isn't a "right".
And so, I (like many of us) hope that you (and many like you) will succeed in your efforts to force TSA to change its ways.