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The issue I see as far as civil rights goes is that the TSA reports evidence of crimes, real or imagined, to law enforcement. The TSA is allowed to perform inv
by betterunix2 6y ago
The issue I see as far as civil rights goes is that the TSA reports evidence of crimes, real or imagined, to law enforcement. The TSA is allowed to perform invasive, non-optional searches of the traveling public that no law enforcement agency could perform; that should leave no room for any "cooperation" with law enforcement. Right now we have a back door that law enforcement agencies can use to avoid meeting the legal requirements for searching a person or their belongings: relying on a non-law-enforcement agency that follows a completely different set of rules.
To put it another way, the reason we allow drug tests of railroad workers is to ensure employees are sober when they are operating dangerous equipment. The reason we allow the TSA to search people and their belongings is to prevent terrorism. In neither case should there be any form of "cooperation" with law enforcement agencies based on a search that the law enforcement agency itself could not have performed.
- salawat 6y agoIronically, this is the same reason law enforcement has to jump through extra hoops to get IRS data. If that financial data were shared without protections, no one would declare anything. Which hamstrings the capability of the service to operate. The same logic should be applied to TSA. If they must violate the 4th Amendment to keep airlines able to do business, they should not be able to tag in law enforcement, and more importantly, they should not be acting as an extension of DEA or Customs. It should be strictly limited to disarmament/destructive device detection. But lets be honest with ourselves, That is too sane and principled to ever be executed on.