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Old Oct 24, 2007 | 10:42 am
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law dawg
 
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Originally Posted by Global_Hi_Flyer
Bart,

How does this differ from a TSA agent that turns in a passenger to LEO that has other illegal objects or substances - say something that might be considered drug paraphanalia - in their bag?
That's a pretty good point.

OTOH, drugs are still against federal law as well.

I'm on the fence with this one, myself. I think TSOs should only be concerned with threats to the aircraft and not do LEO work. OTOH I don't think that TSOs should let, say, a child molester with an active warrant for said offense (should they somehow become aware of it) onto a plane without calling LEOs and alerting them.

I don't know how to reconcile those beliefs either.
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