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TSA Starts Watch List of Disruptive Passengers
http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Government/TSA-starts-watch-list-of-disruptive-passengers
Travel Weekly / by Robert Silk / May 18, 2018
“TSA has created a watch list of individuals who have engaged in disruptive or aggressive behavior at airport screening checkpoints.
The list, the existence of which TSA confirmed Thursday after it was revealed in a New York Times article, currently has less than 50 people on it, according to the agency.
"This applies no additional screening to the individual," Darby LaJoye, TSA's assistant administrator for security operations, told lawmakers at a hearing of the House homeland security subcommittee Thursday. "It's simply an awareness that somebody is going through the checkpoint that has demonstrated concerning, assaultive behavior in the past to our officers."
According to the New York Times, the watch list was established in February. A five-page directive that the Times said it obtained, and that was signed in March by LaJoye, says that behavior posing physical danger to screeners can get people listed. So can other behavior, such as loitering near security checkpoints....”
http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Government/TSA-starts-watch-list-of-disruptive-passengers
Travel Weekly / by Robert Silk / May 18, 2018
“TSA has created a watch list of individuals who have engaged in disruptive or aggressive behavior at airport screening checkpoints.
The list, the existence of which TSA confirmed Thursday after it was revealed in a New York Times article, currently has less than 50 people on it, according to the agency.
"This applies no additional screening to the individual," Darby LaJoye, TSA's assistant administrator for security operations, told lawmakers at a hearing of the House homeland security subcommittee Thursday. "It's simply an awareness that somebody is going through the checkpoint that has demonstrated concerning, assaultive behavior in the past to our officers."
According to the New York Times, the watch list was established in February. A five-page directive that the Times said it obtained, and that was signed in March by LaJoye, says that behavior posing physical danger to screeners can get people listed. So can other behavior, such as loitering near security checkpoints....”
