Small airports irked by removal of body scanners
March 6, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK Managers at dozens of small airports have expressed outrage at federal officials for hauling new full-body scanners away from their facilities and sending them to large hubs that haven’t yet upgraded older machines criticized for showing too much anatomy. Continue Reading
Officials say new body scanners enhance security, speed up process, minimize privacy concernsA $170,000 Advanced Imaging Technology unit was installed at the passenger checkpoint on Jan. 17 and went into operation a couple of days later.
The Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport will soon lose its armed security guards, said manager Matthew Remynse on Tuesday during the Stark County Commission meeting in the Stark County Courthouse.
Jesse Ventura, a former professional wrestler who was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998, sued the TSA in January, two years after he had a titanium hip implanted. The hip sets off metal detectors at airports, and in September 2010, the TSA required screeners to pull such people aside and search them more thoroughly, either by using “whole-body imaging” or physical pat-down searches.
GRAND FORKS (WDAZ-TV) – TSA workers are going to ease airport screening for children.

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