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Airport checkpoint search unconstitutional (access required)

Published: July 10, 2009

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A TSA officer violated the scope of a permissible search when she opened an envelope containing false passports, a U.S. District Court in Ohio has ruled. The defendant was flagged for a secondary security screening at an airport security checkpoint. The agent had already determined that he was not carrying weapons or explosives, but during a ...
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