A new bill allows airports to evict TSA screeners
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Senate Passes Bill Allowing Airports To Evict TSA Screeners
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The Senate passed a bill that includes a provision allowing airports to hire and replace TSA screeners with private security. After reports of TSA's invasive policies, many airports are attempting to take responsibility for their own screening procedures.
The newly approved legislation “would require the TSA to reconsider applications for private screeners that it had rejected.”
“Some airport executives have argued that contract security personnel are more courteous than government workers,” reports CNN. “It was felt that a private contractor would provide friendlier customer service to the traveling public,” the head of a Roswell, New Mexico, airport wrote to Congress.”
The community shares its opinion on the TSA:
Truthitswhatsfordinner: "The TSA needs to go. I am so glad the senate passed this. Finally some bipartisan support to reign in these worker."
GRC54: "To my recollection wasn't the TSA brought into being when the Patriot Act was passed? Was it not to replace the private airport security that allowed 4 planes to get hijacked because the private security didn't care as they were paid minimum wages for their efforts. Some of the TSA workers probably should not be on the job as when you give a person power they tend to abuse it. Probably the airports are tired of paying high wages to the TSA for security as well. Look into it further."
jpvt: "I have no love for the TSA, but I'm not sure I trust security corporations to run the show any better or be any less invasive than the TSA. What's more is the TSA, being a government run program has some inherent authority to it. Rent-a-cops have a lot less (it seems to me)."
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Mark701
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I think it's easy to blame "organizations" for being abusive. However, it's the people in those organizations that are the problem. Given that, I don't see how private contractors, whose employees will have the same powers(?) and responsibilities as TSA employees, will not over time, behave any differently.
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