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Home » Homeland Security » No I.D.? No Sweat!

No I.D.? No Sweat!

You know all those peo­ple at the air­port who tell you that you’ve got to have ID to get on a flight? They’re wrong. “You don’t need iden­ti­fi­ca­tion to travel on an air­plane,” Defense Tech pal Ryan Singel dis­cov­ers.
Austin.Powers.NY.ID.jpeg“Who says? The TSA [Transportation Security Administration]. ‘Passengers are allowed to enter screen­ing area with­out iden­ti­fi­ca­tion,’ TSA spokes­woman Amy Kudwa told this hum­ble reporter today.”

The TSA has told the [U.S.] Ninth Circuit [Court of Appeals] in two sep­a­rate cases (John Gilmore & Daniel Kuualoha Aukai) that air­port pol­icy was to let peo­ple enter secu­rity areas with­out iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.
Gilmore’s Identity Project has been ask­ing for vol­un­teers to see if that was true… [if peo­ple really could get through air­port secu­rity with­out ID.]
Results, cur­rently mixed. Dog-​​ate-​​my home­work excuse with con­tri­tion gets you less has­sle than a flat-​​out refusal seems to be the pat­tern, accord­ing to folks at the I.D. Project.
So, if you want to fly with­out iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with­out telling any white lies, I rec­om­mend tak­ing a hearty amount of for­ti­tude and a copy of at least one of the rul­ings from the Ninth Circuit.

(Big ups: Bill)

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  1. Ken Adams says:
    March 28, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    In my expe­ri­ence, it’s not TSA ask­ing for ID in the secu­rity lines, it’s pri­vate ‘secu­rity’ peo­ple. I’ve always assumed they were hired by either the air­port or the air­lines. Situation seemed iden­ti­cal in recent trips through PHL, ORF, SAN, HNL, and PVD.

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  2. Noah Shachtman says:
    March 28, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    “From per­sonal expe­ri­ence I was allowed through TSA with no ID,” says RC…
    Due to an emer­gency I ended up at the air­port with an expired driver’s license(it was in the mail). They made me go back to the ticket win­dow and stamped in big red let­ters “NO ID” on my ticket. With this ticket in hand I was allowed through the “spe­cial” line with the asso­ci­ated wand­ing and pat­down.
    On my return trip, still no “valid” ID, I went to the ticket win­dow and had my ticket stamped “NO ID”. I went throught the “spe­cial” line once again no has­sle.
    Due to my looks I have ended up in the spe­cial line a major­ity of the time any­way so I may just use this in the future as a mat­ter of course.

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  3. James says:
    March 28, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    Soooo…what’s the deal with the “asso­ci­ated wand­ing and pat­down?” What do they expect to find that the walk-​​through metal detec­tor doesn’t? Isn’t this just a mean­ing­less has­sle intended to deter peo­ple from mak­ing an issue of the ID require­ment? A per­sonal humil­i­a­tion that pun­ishes you for being a lib­er­tar­ian smar­tass?
    I won­der if they had enough wands and wan­der­ing hands to deal with the pos­si­bil­ity of every­one refus­ing to show ID.

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  4. Nathan says:
    March 28, 2006 at 8:38 pm

    The TSA pol­icy is that if you have either no or an expired ID you are still per­mit­ted to fly, how­ever, you are auto­mat­i­cally a tar­get of spe­cial screen­ing.
    This has been the rule for at least the past year and pre­sum­ably before that.
    It seems rea­son­able enough in my opinion.

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  5. Steve says:
    March 28, 2006 at 10:19 pm

    I’am gonna get flammed for this, but I think that wand-​​waving, pat-​​downs and other “has­sles” are actu­ally good. I worked as a super­vi­sor for a mil­i­tary passenger/​cargo air ter­mi­nal from 2000 to 2003, and although a mil­i­tary ter­mi­nal is far less likely to have any­thing go “boom”, we still took secu­rity seri­ously.
    I think that by “chang­ing up” search pro­ce­dures, ID /​ NO-​​ID and other poli­cies, it may keep bad guys off bal­ance.
    Besides, I still believe that out great­est threat to com­mer­i­cal avi­a­tion is via cargo (and US mail in cargo) with sem­tex or c-​​4.

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  6. RR says:
    February 2, 2007 at 10:39 am

    The secu­rity check­ing peo­ples IDs at the air­port are secu­rity offi­cers that are not TSA hired, the air­port hires these peo­ple to work with TSA. The IDs are not really needed but you will ALWAYS be screened more, with them going through your bags and wanding/​patting you down. It will always be that way. It really isnt that bad and peo­ple shouldnt be giv­ing hard times to these peo­ple, they are try­ing to keep every­one who goes on a plane safe so we dont have another 9/​11. What they expect to find it some­thing dan­ger­ous that isnt metal (thats why a metal detecter wont go off)! remem­ber not all pro­hib­ited items are metal such as sheet explo­sives! thats the idea for that.

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