The TSA is considering a policy change that would allow airport security screeners to carry cellphones so they can quickly call for help in an emergency.
Just minutes before a gunman opened fire in Los Angeles International Airport last fall, killing a TSA security screener and wounding three other people, the two armed security officers assigned to the area left for breaks without informing a dispatcher as required, The Associated Press reports.
Members of a House panel threatened to privatize more airport screening unless the Transportation Security Administration improves its treatment of travelers.
The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks have reached startling levels.
The federal government said that it will take action this year that could eventually require Metra and other railroads to install inward-facing video cameras in locomotives.
Raymond Diaz, former chief of the New York City Police Department Transit Bureau, will become director of security at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
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