Remember that you may still be subjected to random screening procedures and enhanced security measures, just like our Trusted Traveler systems in the U.S. and Canada.
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Right now the FAA and airlines rely on random screening and computer-assisted passenger screening to decide which bags should be screened, based on a profile of suspicious behavior.
On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that aviation security was being tightened to include enhanced random screening, additional federal air marshals and the addition of names to the terrorist watch list.
America is now, belatedly, moving away from random screening, which led to absurdly rigorous treatment of obviously harmless categories like small children, veterans and even the planes' own pilots, to a computerised system that checks identities and assesses potential risk.
My first thought was that this was random secondary screening and more hassle.
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The government will step up security at railway stations, where it will introduce random baggage and passenger screening.
This latest incident comes two weeks after 43 Transportation Security Administration workers in Florida were disciplined for not performing additional screening on random carry-on bags and passengers.
That is when California's voters will decide whether or not to turn the task over to an independent Citizen Redistricting Commission, laboriously constructed so as to be balanced and independent by a process of screening and random selection.
In addition, the majority of all other passengers on United States-bound international flights will go through random threat-based enhanced screening.
The News 11 team found a pattern of women who believe that there was nothing random about the way they were selected for extra screening.
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