Articles Tagged with ''airport security''

The US Senate rejected an amendment that would have blocked Transportation Security Administration employees from having collective-bargaining rights.

A proposal offered in the Senate would make misusing body scanner images a federal crime, punishable by up to a year in prison.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began testing a new, more modest body scanning system at three airports.

This year will mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and for many high-risk areas, security remains a work in progress. A perfect example is all the hype that various airports are generating for using—or more to the point, how they are using—body scanning equipment.

TSA chief John Pistole said he has decided not to expand a program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners, saying he does not see any advantage to it.

The Springfield-Branson National Airport wants to opt out of TSA security and go to a private company.

 

By the end of April, terror threats to the U.S. will no longer be described in shades of green, blue, yellow, orange and red, says an AP report.

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev criticized the management of Moscow's busiest airport, a day after 35 people were killed in a suicide bombing there.

In response to public outcries and almost daily news reports about blunders in airport security, TSA says it's got a new way for passengers with disabilities to go through airport security.