TSA Assures No Change In Photo Checkpoint Policy

July 1, 2011 @ 9:10PM

TSA Assures No Change In Photo Checkpoint Policy

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The Transportation Security Administration wants to assure us that photography and videography will continue to be allowed at airport checkpoints, despite hinting last month that it might revise that policy.

The agency’s top attorney, Margot Bester, sent a letter this week to the National Press Photographers Association, stating the following:

“Please be assured that TSA’ s goal is to protect passenger’s rights, including the right to record at passenger screening checkpoints, while ensuring that passenger screening operations can take place in an effective and efficient manner. We will continue to strive to meet this two-part commitment.”

Bester’s letter is no doubt a reaction to the letter NPPA attorney Mickey Osterreicher sent Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, after the TSA hinted that it might revise the current photo policy.

Hopefully, Bester will send a letter to the actual screeners, many who do not have a clue that photography is, in deed, allowed at checkpoints.

And hopefully we can continue to be entertained by videos of passengers stipping down to their underwear before walking through the checkpoint.

Comments

hal

10 months ago

female passengers stripping? lets hope they at least are good looking when in their undies.....lol i happen to think its the right of every, in great shape, female to undress to go thru the check point of the TSA in airports!
and also my right to video this while I happen to be there with my camcorder! do they allow tripods, anyone know?

anyone heading down to MIA to check and see if anyone says you cant use video at the TSA checkpoint there, please let me know. If you allow me, i would like to join you.

Rance

10 months ago

I remember that chick... Giggity!

Apostate

10 months ago

I'll hazard a guess as to why TSA goons like to harras women. It's because very few woman would willingly and knowingly date a TSA goon. Women would sooner go ballroom dancing with a Captain of the SS! So this is how the goons get back at women in general.

hal

10 months ago

with the "no fly" lists getting bigger, hmmmm longer, they gona have to come up with a new list.
how about the "no nip" list. aint that a NIP i see peeking thru that see-thru she is wearing?
sure looks like a nip to me, cant have that.
kids are going to go blind loooking at NIPS before they are mature enough to handle such a.....well you get what i mean?
the AIRPORTS need to have "no nip" zones and lists! its all a matter of time!
"no smoking, no nips, no cell phone use while taking off [or landing], no photography while taking off, now please be seated, buckle up, and have a nice flight!!!"

Just Me

10 months ago

I posted a link to this article on my local Airport and Police Department's Facebook Pages. I humbly suggest your readers consider doing the same in their communities, which "could" go a long way to getting the word out and negating any pleas of ignorance and attempts at "Plausible Deniability"

Happy 4th of July!

Phred

10 months ago

"Hopefully, Bester will send a letter to the actual screeners, many of whom do not have a clue that photography is, indeed, allowed at checkpoints."

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Since when do TSA screeners have a clue about anything?

Apostate

10 months ago

In the coming years I plan to travel to Russia, China and the USA. It will be interesting to compare the authorities of each country and see which is the most oppressive.

hal

10 months ago

you may very well be surprised in your ventures, the most dangerous one may very well be the one that tries to hide true oppression behind the curtains of false freedom! that i believe is the worst, even compared to worse oppression when its not being hid at all.

hidden oppression is always worst when the attempt to hide it is in place, when oppression is open for all to see, its easier to fight and try to end it, i think!

i do not believe either RUSSIA nor CHINA has ever attempted to hide or conceal the oppression that they have in those STATES.

darius vons

9 months ago

TSA searches are not about safety... get over that stupid illusion. there is no way I or anybody I've even heard of, besides the GOATSE guy, who could fit a bomb up their ass, so why check there? unless it's for something that CAN fit... you know something like drugs.

don't let them take more of your rights away for the illution of safety.