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tazzygirl -> RE: Don't bloody well touch me!!! (11/25/2010 8:25:52 PM)
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Apparently Sanford Airport in Orlando has decided to opt out of the TSA scanners and go with a private company. But, according to the article...
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The TSA points out that even if an airport decides to use a private firm for security, the screeners still must follow TSA guidelines. That would include using enhanced pat-downs and the full-body scanners if they are installed at the airport.
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/11/sanford-airport-to-opt-out-of.html
My question is... who is in ultimate charge of the airports? From what i can find, its now in the hands of DOT and Homeland Security.
Something else i found... from 2002, a CBS article expressing the views of people then...
Likewise, Gordon Sommers, waiting at New York's Kennedy Airport for a return flight to Kingston, Jamaica, said he just wanted the security screening done well.
"I don't much care whether it's Civil Service or contracted service as long as it's effective," Sommers said.
The change provided reassurance to Scott Landis of South Berwick, Maine.
"I'd rather have the federal government handle it than the airlines," said Landis, flying to Florida with his family from Boston's Logan Airport, where the two planes that smashed into the World Trade Center took off from on Sept. 11.
"It's the appropriate role for the government to play. The airlines have been shown to be lax in the past."
Renier Kraakman of Cambridge, Mass., escorting his 11-year-old daughter to her flight at Logan, didn't see any difference.
"It's just for show," he said. "But if it makes people feel good it's worthwhile."
Kendra Lynn of Tulsa, Okla., said it did not take longer for her to pass through security Sunday at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. But she said she would not complain even if federal oversight meant more thorough checks. "We're thrilled with any kind of excess screening," she said.
Security workers said they were aware of the federal supervision.
"I'm nervous," said Girish Vakil, a security worker for Argenbright Security Inc. at Dallas-Forth Worth. He added: "I'm a good worker, never failed a test."
Another problem for the government, reports Pinkston, is the high tech equipment needed to check luggage for explosives: The nation's airports need 2,000, but there are only 165 in operation now, and another 1,000 in the pipeline for installation by the end of the year. Until then, security personnel will have to make do with hand scanners.
"We've had a very deficient airlines security system for a number of years," said Stempler. "We can't fix it overnight."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/02/26/terror/main502103.shtml
ETA a link
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