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Texas vs. the TSA
Kashmir Hill has an article up on Fortune about the ongoing battle between the state of Texas and the TSA:
Upset about invasive screening techniques at the airport, the Lone Star State was considering a bill that would make a TSA patdown that involves touching “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person including through the clothing” a misdemeanor, allowing Texas law enforcement to arrest TSA officials and charge them with sexual harassment. It would have meant that TSA officials could be fined $4,000 and spend up to a year in jail for doing their jobs of feeling up prospective fliers.
Texas ended up folding in the end. Still, I would rather see more states fighting for their rights and the rights of their citizens. Also, I love Ben Brooks’s suggestion to pass a law requiring airports in Texas to opt-out from using the TSA.