Originally Posted by Bart
At secondary screening, if your shoes alarm the hand wand, those shoes have to be x-rayed, and your feet have to be hand-wanded without your shoes on (if you are sockless, then all that is required is a visual...unless you're wearing very saggy trousers that cover most or part of the foot...the screener would then be screening the top of the foot and ankle). You may request that screening not resume until your shoes are returned.
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Hope this clarifies any confusion on shoes.
So are you saying that the article's author was wrong in asserting that it's illegal to force someone to take off their shoes? What do you do if someone, saying they read this article, refuses to remove their shoes during the secondary?