TSA: Making Woman Take Down Pants & Underwear “Not a Strip Search”
February 1, 2020 in News by RBN Staff
source: professional-troublemaker.com
by Jonathan Corbett
The TSA has been pretty clear that they do not conduct “strip searches” at the checkpoint. In fact, they even re-iterated it to the media last year when I filed suit on behalf of Rhonda Mengert, a grandmother from Las Vegas, NV, who was ordered to take down her pants and underwear and show them a feminine hygiene pad.
So why does once a year or so a new news story gets published with new allegations of checkpoint strip searches?
Perhaps one reason is that the TSA doesn’t think forcing you to expose your genitals counts as a strip search. From their latest filing in the Mengert case:
