Last 6 out of 7 times I've flown from LEX (and manymany before I was making LexPax keep track, too!) I have been secondaried. It is almost entirely due to one attitudinal screener.

I fly a lot, as at least some of you here also do. I know exactly how to get through "security", and I haven't set off a beep since I took all the underwires out of my bras in late September of 2001 - OK?

But once, about the time DL started letting us print boarding passes on-line, I had a printed-out boarding pass, and was running late. I got told that I couldn't go through "security" without a valid boarding pass. I looked and saw that the line for the Next DL flight was very very long, so I said, "This IS a boarding pass", and argued, and asked for a supervisor (which took a LOT less time than going back and standing in the line would have been). And the supervisor person who intervened said, "Yes it is a boarding pass, let her through." So I got a big red S put on my boarding pass. It still was less time than going back would have been.

But it has been like that ever since. Instead of saying, Oh I learned something, and forgetting it, the screener involved makes sure I get secondaried. This is a small airport, so I know what I'm talking about. And you know, I am sick of it.

I rarely have problems with screening most places. SDF - no problem! SAN - no problem! (To name the other airports I usually fly through.) Most other airports, no problem. Yes, there are random idiocies, but this is harrassment without even being able to complain about No Fly lists. I've had my purse taken out of my sight (and put down directly beside the Harrassing screener while many many other items were run through the scanner). I am consistently made to take off one layer silk jackets (!) and rerun them through Xray. Shoes are just silly.

To repeat. I am sick of this. The one time I was NOT secondaried was last Christmas when *surprise* a certain TSA employee was not there. I don't want to have to drive to SDF all the time if I can help it, but what can I do?

We are keeping a log now of dates and particulars, but so?

I flew out of LEX 3x last year and decided I'd never go through there again if I could help it.

Each time I had a lengthy discussion with the screening manager because of the shoe carnival that their ...-clown FSD supposedly makes them do.

I really hate that place.

So the FSD is an asshat... doesn't give me much hope. I don't even care about the shoe carnival much. I own a serious number of slip-off shoes now, and have resigned myself to slippping them off. I DO care about getting secondaried because a particular employee on an ego trip can target people for grief for no reason than that ego trip. LexPax was once followed nearly to B2 because he explained that the First Amendment hadn't yet been entirely suspended. (That was last July, and that started with me being secondaried for no reason again.)

LEX used to be such a great little airport, and I still get the feeling that the airport manager is a pretty cool guy. He's the one who took over after the huge fight with the twit who thought his ... runway... wasn't big enough. Don't know if you followed any of that, but it was local politics at its best.

I've never had a problem at SDF, but it really does triple the time even when we don't have to overnight, not to mention the cost of parking.

Ghod, I have to fly Friday am, and I am sooo dreading it.

Have you filed an official complaint with the TSA about this person? I would think that TSA would be sensitive to this type of problem, because it might be construed as profiling or unjustifiable discrimination. The situation you described above is almost certainly against some TSA policy.

How to complain to the TSA.

GG check your email.

I hope everything goes well. I do hate to see you being harrassed at the checkpoint. Usually I try to defend TSA "harrassment", but in this case, I believe you are being harrassed. I hope that any TSA FT members can provide a good resource for you.

BARKLEY REGIONAL (PAH)
Jason Brainard
Federal Security Director
Phone: 812-434-4675

BLUE GRASS (LEX)
Lanny Miller
Federal Security Director
Phone: 859-252-0120

CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY INTERNATIONAL (CVG)
Terry Burgess
Federal Security Director
Phone: 859-372-9738

LOUISVILLE INTL-STANDIFORD FIELD (SDF)
Robert Foster
Federal Security Director
Phone: 502-363-5121

OWENSBORO-DAVIESS COUNTY (OWB)
Jason Brainard
Federal Security Director
Phone: 812-434-4673