Posted on 04/24/2014 9:12:07 AM PDT by george76
A Hermosa Beach woman who sued the Transportation Security Administration after she claimed officers at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport harassed her four years ago over her son's breast milk said in remarks published today that she has won a tentative legal settlement against the agency.
Stacey Armato sued in federal court in Phoenix after a 2010 incident in which she asked the TSA to provide an alternate form of screening that would not expose her 7-month-old son's breast milk to radiation. During the incident, Armato claimed in court papers, she was forced to wait in a glass enclosure for more than 40 minutes while she was "frequently harassed and abused by the TSA agents."
Under the terms of the proposed settlement, which should become official within the next month, the TSA will take steps to retrain its officers on proper breast milk-screening procedures, Armato told the Daily Breeze.
The agency also will pay her $75,000, which she plans to use for her legal fees and to donate to BreastfeedLA, a group dedicated to promoting breast- feeding across the region.
(Excerpt) Read more at hermosabeach.patch.com ...
The TSA needs to join the EPA and dozens of other alphabet soup agencies, on the road to extinction.
Meanwhile last week some teenager jumped a fence & was able to stow away in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound plane. Ridiculous.
Countless other reports would indicate, too, the TSA has come to mean “thieves snooping around” as so many people report thefts from their luggage Get rid of this monstrosity.
So she is getting $70k of taxpayer monies because the TSA are idiots. Sounds about right.
and all those little tiny knifes and flashlights and lighters etc that they confiscated....they took off with all that too....
True. But if it reduces the idiocy of the TSA, it may be money well spent. I don't consider this a frivolous lawsuit. It was something that needed to be done. Infants and small children should not be exposed to radiation to comply with some petty TSA employee's authoritarian demands. Meanwhile, the TSA refuses to profile real live terrorists who are members of the Religion of Peace because that would be discriminatory.
The TSA needs to join the EPA and dozens of other alphabet soup agencies, on the road to extinction.
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Indeed it does.
Credit to the news outlet for omitting any of TSA’s standard haughty boilerplate about security, courtesy, blah blah blah.
Frankly, they are a very fat cash cow and I’m surprised the trial bar haven’t set their sights on them more earnestly. Lord knows there is no shortage of cases to bring.
I was not defending the TSA. They are a waste of money period. But don’t for a minute think that lawsuits are gonna make a difference to the thugs. Its not their money. They’ll just get more.
So she is getting $70k of taxpayer monies because the TSA are idiots. Sounds about right.
Remember — when TSA was first formed, they were affectionately named “Ridge’s Retards.”
Now you know why...
I read things like this and just shake my head. The issue isn't "breast milk screening procedures." In fact, creating these procedures is just going to add another layer of regulations and rules on top of a huge pile that the idiots who do the screening won't be able to understand or follow. The issue is that screeners don't use common sense and are on a power trip.
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