Thu, Dec 02, 2010
TSA Guidelines Say It Is Not Subject To X-Ray, But Agents
Insisted
A mother in a security line at Phoenix Airport who also happens
to be an attorney was reportedly placed in a "specialty screening
area" by TSA agents when she objected to allowing breast milk she
was carrying to be x-rayed. The "specialty screening area" is a
glassed-in enclosure in view of other passengers clearing
security.
Stacey Amato told the blog Prison Planet that she was returning
to her home in Los Angeles when she was stopped by TSA. She was
carrying a printed copy of TSA's guidelines that expressly point
out that "Mothers flying with, and now without, their child be
permitted to bring breast milk in quantities greater than three
ounces as long as it is declared for inspection at the security
checkpoint.”
The rules state that breast milk is considered a medical liquid,
which should not be x-rayed. She was carrying a printed copy of the
rules because, she says, she had the same problem at the same gate
at the same airport the week previous.
But the TSA agents put her in the security area anyway. Amato
says she was told by a Phoenix police officer who interviewed her
in the screening area that the agents had recognized her from
the earlier incident, and they "had it out for her" and that she
should fly through a different gate in the future. She says he
advised her that if she did not cooperate, he would be forced to
arrest her.
Stacey Amato Held In "Specialty Screening Area"
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Amato said when shewas eventually able to retrieve and
present the copy of the rules concerning breast milk to the
TSA supervisor, she was told that it was not a medical liquid. When
she handed him the second set of guidelines saying it WAS to be
treated as a medical liquid, she was told "well,not today." She
says she told the container was "too full" to be exempted from the
x-ray machine, and she eventually was required to pour the liquid
into eight different containers, and the mild was tested for
explosives residue, before she was allowed to proceed.
Amato was able to obtain copies of the security tapes from the
airport, but they had apparently been heavily edited. She
eventually made it through security, but missed her flight due to
the problems at the security checkpoint. Southwest booked her on
the next available flight to LA.
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