Originally Posted by
Often1
...Random searches for Pre-Check ought to be extremely few and far between (an Officer at IAD Pre-Check recently told me that they had not had a "random" in 3 weeks). If you are experiencing these, they aren't random, they are likely due to something in your pockets which is metallic but which you don't realize is...
Maybe things are changing? In less than 2 months I've had 2 randoms in precheck myself and my husband has had one. Metal wasn't the issue. My first time was at CHS and they didn't want to check my person at all. They were looking for electronic items in carryons. The metal detector beeped just after I emerged from it. They then asked me to bring my carryon items to them so they could check for electronic devices. My purse had already gone through the xray and was waiting for me on the other side. They didn't know it was mine, so it wasn't as if they had seen anything on the xray. They said it was a random check and I believed them.
The second time was a "regular" random at IAD. I had no metal on me apart from my gold wedding ring and nothing at all in my pockets. I opted out and got the usual. Same for my husband at RNO.