TSA Refusing to Release Documents About SPOT Program’s Effectiveness, Racial Profiling Impact
NEW YORK –-(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2015. The American Civil Liberties Union and the NYCLU took the Transportation Security Administration to court today in an effort to uncover documents about a controversial passenger screening program used at airports nationwide.
The program is called Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT. TSA “behavior detection officers” watch passengers in airport screening areas for behaviors that the TSA…
