Originally Posted by Section 107

I am very interested to see the story that results from this FOIA. I am not sure the reporter will be very tough:

~15% of the cases resulted in terminations, resignations, or suspensions. In actual numbers that means a couple thousand employees - but the reporter seems to blithely pass that off as "...some...."

In addition there are a whole lot of questions about the meaning of this data. For example:

1. The total number of disciplinary cases exceeds the total number of reported resolutions of cases by almost 1,000. Why the discrepancy? Are they still in process?


2. There appears to be a major discrepancy in the number of suspensions. The list shows ~1,300 suspensions (695 for 1-3 days and 611 for 4-14 days) but then reports only 183 suspensions of 1-14 days.

3. TSOs make up the majority of the 50,000+ employees at TSA so it would seem they should make up the majority of the disciplinary issues. But the breakouts for resolutions for TSOs totals just 94 cases. This is improbable. Let's hope the reporter was smart enough to ask for more information that explains this listing.