In my short time here, I have found several folks advising people to contact an attorney for being "illegally detained" or where TSA "falsely arrested" the person by not allowing them to leave the checkpoint until LEO arrival when an involved item found during the process was non-weapon related.

It is a simple fact that contraband of any sort found during the screening process will be brought to the LEO's attention. It is at that point in time where the LEO will decide whether to take criminal action against the passenger.

Now I can only personally speak of one airport (mine), but I have yet to hear a case out of any court in this country where contraband found during the screening process was not allowed or supressed because it was outside of TSA's scope of the search as so many of you claim. If there has been case precedent set, please provide the case-law and/or ruling.

It seems that since these rulings remain upheld in every court, which in my opinion is pretty common knowledge, people come to this forum to simply gripe about something that is legal and continues to be legal.

I would think it would be a much better use of time to send emails, write letters to the appropriate politicians, and/or have protests about such behavior rather than gripe about what should be illegal actions by TSA during searches at the checkpoint.