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Feb 19, 2017 | 8:10 pm

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Carl Johnson

Join Date: Feb 2007

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Originally Posted by gsoltso

The only signage I can find at one of our sites, is the one at the Blog - see it here http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/02/screenin...-savannah.html

It says exactly what I said it did, and the signage at most checkpoints I have seen are an almost exact replica of this sign.

I am not going to argue the language you are using, I am merely stating this is the process -

-Passenger chooses to fly
-Passenger will choose to either submit to the screening and regulations covering the secured/sterile areas of the airport or they will not
- If they choose to enter, they are subject to screening upon entry, and at any other time that the programs indicate they will be (such as at the gate, at other areas in the sterile area)
- If they choose not to enter, they will be denied access to the sterile/secured area

**- There are some airports that also post signage similar to the one at the above link at the entrance to the airport, and the people either choose to enter and submit, or choose not to enter.

You are free to tell TSOs or LEOs you are not going to submit to a search in the sterile/secured areas, but the end result will most likely be you will be escorted from the sterile area, and denied access to the flights. YMMV as to the actual happenings that go on, but that is the most likely event that will occur.

** These airports post this signage completely independent of TSA/DHS and it is their individual policy.

What the passenger can do is to exit the (not so) sterile area and come back in. But that wouldn't be safe. The only safe thing to do in such a case would be to insist on a terminal dump and warn other passengers that passengers are coming in unscreened. If one passenger inside the (not so) sterile area needs to be screened for any reason, the area is not sterile and the checkpoint screening is ineffective. The only safe thing to do is to clear the terminal, clear out the crew at the failed checkpoint, either keep it closed or replace the crew, and allow the passengers back in only after all open checkpoints are known to be operating properly.

The TSA clerks say they have to get it right every single time. Given their 95% failure rate, it is an absolute miracle that we don't have a 9/11 terrorist attack 20 or 30 time per day at least. Either that, or there is actually no terrorist threat that can be reduced or averted by screening, and the TSA is superfluous as well as ineffective, rather than just ineffective.

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