TSA Screeners Continue to Lie to Passengers About Legality of Recording at Checkpoints
By now, it is becoming clear that TSA screeners know that recording is allowed at security checkpoints in airports, they just choose to tell passengers that it is not allowed with the hope that the passenger will not know any better.
No different than the routine we see from police and security guards on a daily basis.
After all, the policy has been in effect since the inception of the Transportation Security Administration in 2002 and numerous videos have surfaced where TSA screeners have been forced to acknowledge that recording at checkpoints is allowed.
And you would think that someone would mention it to them in their training considering the TSA has had the information posted on its blog in very easy-to-read language since 2009.
We don’t prohibit public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming at screening locations. You can take pictures at our checkpoints as long as you’re not interfering with the screening process or slowing things down. We also ask that you do not film or take pictures of our monitors.
In the above video recorded earlier this month at an airport that I didn’t see mentioned, a mother begins recording as TSA screeners attempt to frisk her daughter who is in a wheelchair.
The girl who appears to be around three is crying and saying she doesn’t want to go to Disney World, so you can imagine how scared she must have been.
The mother starts video recording and the TSA screener tells her it is illegal to record.
The mother continues recording, saying nobody is going to touch her daughter unless she records it.
The screeners eventually back down from harassing her.
But the mother was obviously intimidated from recording their faces, which is something we all must learn to do when we find ourselves in such a situation.
This is at least the third time in less than a year that a video has emerged of TSA screeners attemping to frisk children in wheelchairs.
But it is the umpteenth time they’ve tried to tell passengers that video recording is illegal.
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