Originally Posted by eyecue
TSA at that airport didnt decide anything. It is policy that if you get a hand written ticket without the benefit of computer accuracy checking, you get ssss. Getting rid of the no fly list wont help. The FSD didnt have anything to do with it either. This happens at DEN sometimes and I can tell you that TSA screeners hate it as much as the passengers. It is not any bonus to us when we have to secondary screen all the passengers.
OK, well thanks for the info. I hadn't run into this so I didn't know.
I redirect the venom in my above post away from the local FSD and up to the higher-ups. Nationwide TSA policy should give the local FSD discretion to not SSSS all passengers during a computer breakdown like that. If TSA insists on SSSS as being a valid security measure (which they apparently do), then in this situation they should randomly SSSS x% of the passengers where x% is equal to the percentage of pax normally SSSS'd at that checkpoint.