TSA SUED OVER AIRPORT BODY
SCANNERS
Case comes on the heels of a
scathing inspector general report
The Transportation Security
Administration is facing a new lawsuit over its controversial body scanners, in
a case that accuses the agency of pushing ahead with the devices without the
required regulations.
Three limited-government and
civil-liberties groups filed suit Wednesday against the agency before the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The plaintiffs — the
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), National Center for Transgender
Equality (NCTE), and The Rutherford Institution – make a simple argument: the
TSA doesn’t actually have rules for the use of body scanners.
“There is no regulation
controlling the use of body scanners right now,” Marc Scribner, a research
fellow at CEI, told FoxNews.com. “TSA has been using scanners the last seven
years but that entire span of time they’ve been operating without a
regulation.”
The groups are asking the
court to force the agency to propose system regulations within 90 days. The
case comes on the heels of a scathing inspector general report that found major
security gaps at airport checkpoints.
The same D.C. federal
appeals court ruled in 2011 that the agency needed to develop rules for
scanners under the Administrative Procedure Act. The TSA proposed ideas in
2013, but has yet to follow through. Since 2007 the agency has installed 740
scanners across 160 airports. The plaintiffs want the court to enforce its
prior ruling.
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