Re: Most Despicable: Woman Says TSA Forced Piercings Removal

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with
pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by
federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. 

> From the TSA Blog:

http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/03/tsa-and-piercings.html

Your questions and comments on the incident in Lubbock, Texas have not
gone unnoticed. Yesterday, as soon as TSA became aware of the situation,
people in our Security Operations office looked into it. They
interviewed the four Security Officers who at one point or another,
screened or spoke to the passenger - two men and two women (if a
passenger requests private screening, they must get an officer of the
same sex to screen them there). TSA has also been in touch with the
passenger's lawyer on several occasions.

The bottom line: the security officers followed the procedures for when
someone alarms the metal detector and did nothing wrong. But, after
looking at the procedure the officers followed, it was determined that
the procedures should be modified. An official statement has been posted
on our website here.

Lynn

TSA EoS Blog Team

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