TSA agrees to brief agents following incident at SLC International Airport

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - An incident at Salt Lake City International Airport in early May sparks a medical device refresher course for TSA agents across the country.

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macinapple - 6/9/2012 11:41 PM
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SLC is the worst airport for TSA. I'm never stopped at any other airport. All of the agents are extremely rude and have a wonderful habit of profiling. I'm a white female with no apparent medical disorders--- only thing different is the fact that I have several tattoos on my arms. I'm always forced to go through both the scanner and a full pat down. This last time the "excuse" for the pat down was that my dress "had very large buttons and we're required to search it". In the same day I went through TSA in San Jose and Phoenix with the SAME dress on and was not stopped. I'm absolutely disgusted with SLC.

Fisher1949 - 6/8/2012 6:53 PM
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Like they ever follow procedures or take training seriously. There will continue to be child gropings, elderly strip searches and and abuse of those with special needs. This has been going on for at least two years and will continue until TSA is replaced. This is what you get when you hire criminals,perverts and pedophiles to staff airport security.

skitarghee - 6/7/2012 3:35 PM
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Here's a way to save billions of dollars. Do away with TSA!

TSAmorons - 6/7/2012 12:37 PM
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I'd bet that most TSA agents can't even SPELL "insulin". TSA recruits directly from the ghetto, and literacy - let alone intelligence - is tough to find there.

buncherco - 6/7/2012 11:44 AM
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We're thrilled, that as her family, HER efforts HAVE led SOMEWHERE! GO SAVANNAH!

Scruffy - 6/7/2012 10:47 AM
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I have a better idea than a national shift briefing for TSA workers. How about a national pink slip for TSA workers? Seriously, these keystone cops have done absolutely nothing towards stopping terrorism since they were put in place. Security theater, always reacting to last month's threat.

Katharine - 6/7/2012 8:41 AM
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Are we to believe that these laid off fry cooks and store greeters can be made to be familiar with every possible type of portable or wearable medical device merely through a few hours of 'training' from their fellow idiots? Even at the finest medical centers there are doctors, nurses, physician asistants and other fully trained personnel who cannot always precisely recognize all medical devices and conditions simply because there are so many. Just the audacity to think these idiots could be trained in some way to recognize and then actually understand these things is delusional. Just another example of TSA folly, waste, hubris, idiocy. And Savannah honey - (and her family) - wake up. Your efforts will lead nowhere. Morons will be wrecking insulin pumps and abusing others with devices till the end of time - or as long as this heinous, embarrassing agency continues to control free movement in this country.

Katharine - 6/7/2012 8:41 AM
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Are we to believe that these laid off fry cooks and store greeters can be made to be familiar with every possible type of portable or wearable medical device merely through a few hours of 'training' from their fellow idiots? Even at the finest medical centers there are doctors, nurses, physician asistants and other fully trained personnel who cannot always precisely recognize all medical devices and conditions simply because there are so many. Just the audacity to think these idiots could be trained in some way to recognize and then actually understand these things is delusional. Just another example of TSA folly, waste, hubris, idiocy. And Savannah honey - (and her family) - wake up. Your efforts will lead nowhere. Morons will be wrecking insulin pumps and abusing others with devices till the end of time - or as long as this heinous, embarrassing agency continues to control free movement in this country.

Katharine - 6/7/2012 8:40 AM
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Id'yots

RobertHollis - 6/7/2012 5:55 AM
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Seriously? They need to "repeat the training?!" How dense do you have to be to require periodic retraining in the phrase "do not put insulin pumps through scanners"? Even the jumped up mall cops with their make-belive badges should be able to retain that.
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