[Infowarrior] - TSA Announces Enhancements to Airport ID Requirements to Increase Safety

[Richard Forno]

(as if a 'terrorist' wouldn't show id to get through security  
anyway.........rf)


TSA Announces Enhancements to Airport ID Requirements to Increase Safety

News & Happenings

June 5, 2008

http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/enhance_id_requirements.shtm

Beginning Saturday, June 21, 2008 passengers that willfully refuse to  
provide identification at security checkpoint will be denied access to  
the secure area of airports. This change will apply exclusively to  
individuals that simply refuse to provide any identification or assist  
transportation security officers in ascertaining their identity.

This new procedure will not affect passengers that may have misplaced,  
lost or otherwise do not have ID but are cooperative with officers.  
Cooperative passengers without ID may be subjected to additional  
screening protocols, including enhanced physical screening, enhanced  
carry-on and/or checked baggage screening, interviews with behavior  
detection or law enforcement officers and other measures.

Under the law that created TSA, the Aviation and Transportation  
Security Act, the TSA administrator is responsible for overseeing  
aviation security (P.L. 107-71) and has the authority to establish  
security procedures at airports (49 C.F.R. § 1540.107). Passengers  
that fail to comply with security procedures may be prohibited from  
entering the secure area of airports to catch their flight (49 C.F.R.  
§ 1540.105(a)(2).

This initiative is the latest in a series designed to facilitate  
travel for legitimate passengers while enhancing the agency's risk- 
based focus - on people, not things. Positively identifying passengers  
is an important tool in our multi-layered approach to security and one  
that we have significantly bolstered during the past 18 months.