Originally Posted by
VA1379
I have my FT tag somewhere, but it is not on any luggage right now. I was surprised to see an FT tag on the TSA Precheck lane for the D gates at BWI last Wednesday morning. I also noticed that person put their shoes through security, which you don't need to do for Precheck.
If you spotted the tag hanging from a black backpack around 6:30am on March 8th, that was almost certainly me, and the reason I put my shoes on the belt is that I got "randomly" selected for additional screening and they instructed me to remove my shoes
FWIW in addition to cases where people know in advance their shoes will trigger, yesterday going through SEA a few people got beeps but apparently not due to random selection and were also instructed to remove their shoes and try again.