Thousands of unscreened people enter and leave airport grounds daily. They are called employees.
16 year old? Don’t think so.
“They are called employees.”
I travel frequently for business. I was waiting in the security line when an airport employee (at one on the restaurants on that concourse) went to the front of the line, threw his backpack on the belt, walked through the detector with his shoes on (a shootable offense for the traveling public), set off the metal detector, and the TSA guy just waved him on...