Originally Posted by red456
My concern with requesting a private room is that any violation of the patdown policy, i.e., plam of hand and fingers, would be harder to prove, unless you ask for a witness of your choosing.
Are the private screening rooms videotaped just like the main checkpoint? At least at DCA they were. You are not allowed to have your own witness in a private room. But there is one screener and one observer (an extra screener). There may be an exception to the rule in the case of children; I think I may have heard that parents can witness the private screenings of their kids, but I don't know what the age cutoff is for that. What of it, screeners? Do you get to private screen teenagers without a parent witness?