Only to those who know nothing about the subject, or those who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty in interpreting the information presented.

Is it a Management or an Operations directive? Never mind, I checked both, the directive you propose does not exist under that name (which is why I asked for a link).

TSA management directive no. 100.4

Signed by Gale Rossides 9.1.2009

Sorry - wrong date in initial post.

Oh good lord!! Here's the link.

http://www.governmentattic.org/4docs...tives_2009.pdf

The idea was to try to get him to look it up.

It was issued pursuant to several court cases where the TSA got slapped down for exceeding the scope of their duties, which are to search for Weapons, Explosives, and Incendiaries, or WEI.

OP - The 'sheet explosives' that TSA likes to discuss are actually very thick and bulky compared to paper. (1 mm would be the thinnest, several millimeters or even a quarter inch is more normal) so any inspection of documents should be limited to thumbing through to ensure that no thick rubber sheets are hidden inside. If they are reading any content of the documents, they are exceeding their mandate.

OTOH, if TSA is thumbing through a stack of documents, looking for sheet explosives, and happens to see a photo that is obviously child pornography, they can report that to the police. Evidence discovered in this manner has been upheld in court, as long as the original search was limited to searching for WEI in good faith. FWIW.

Accurate data is far more useful, thanks. BTW, it was updated on 1/25/2012 by Director Pistole.

OK, found the directive you sort of quoted. But in quoting it you took the data you provided out of the context that the MD specifically put it into. Try reading the entire section again.

Section 5: Policy, subsection C (1).


Where it pretty much says that if something is discovered incidental to the search that indicates a crime is being committed that the TSO is required to report it to his/her supervisor or a law enforcement official.

IOW, we are prohibited from searching for these things, but we do occasionally discover them, and as such are required to report them to those trained to deal with them. Questions?

Sorry, your data has been superseded.

Cite for revised directive?

No it hasn't.

I have two.

1. Has the TSA trained you to detect "these things" that are unrelated to the safety of air travel?

2. Are you aware of any TSO being reprimanded or worse for failing to report "these things" that are unrelated to the safety of air travel and for which you have not been trained to detect (e.g. child pornography, illegal drugs)?

If you are, then I would like to represent that person in a action against the TSA. :) If not, then that is evidence of a "requirement" that has no teeth, which doesn't make it much of a requirement now does it.

I "could" cite it, but I don't believe you have the access needed. I'll try and find the time to look for it on the internet this weekend. No promises mind you, finding it on the internal TSA intranet was simple, but out in the wild of the internet is a different story.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Carl, but it is. From what I can see he didnt change it a great deal as it was a pretty good directive in the first place, but change it he did.

Child porno
 

The TSA is well qualified to search for child porno - they have hired experts who work as screeners. You can sleep better now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1417686.html

Especially if you have children who require a through pat down...

Patience is a virtue.

1.Please show me what “might” be an unrelated threat to the safety of air travel and I’ll show you two ways it can be done.

2. Hmm, punish someone for being wrong about a safety concern. Yeah, that’s a great idea. :rolleyes:

3. I have extensive training in identifying illicit substances. I cant say the same for my fellow TSO’s, but they can bring concerns to those that DO have the training, which is what our management directive requires. Just like we cant arrest someone who breaches security, but we can point that person out to the persons who can.

And pretty much that’s going to be the last post I have along this subject line in this forum. Again, if you wish to continue this discussion I suggest that you transfer it to the other forum.

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report the post, don't insult the poster.
thanks

squeakr

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