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Traveling to a foreign country? Take this ASIS safety and security webinar

Image from http://www.gobeyondabroad.com/traveling-abroad/ ASIS Travel Safety and Security for Traveling Abroad 20 March 2019 15:00-16:00ET location_onOnline Learning $49Member Price $79Nonmember Price Earn up to 1 CPE CREDIT  | $0 cost for Webinar SubscribersClick here to register! Individuals from all parts of the globe look to broaden their outlook and obtain a sense of adventure when traveling [...]

By |2019-03-15T08:43:16-04:00March 15th, 2019|News|Comments Off on Traveling to a foreign country? Take this ASIS safety and security webinar

Gun missed at TSA airport checkpoint as shutdown continues

How ironic that the current government shutdown -- caused by a fight over how to fund a wall along the southern border -- has caused problems in other areas of national security, namely airport safety and security. Hopefully, there is an end in sight, one that has the well-being of US residents, both on land [...]

By |2019-01-16T06:33:40-05:00January 16th, 2019|News|Comments Off on Gun missed at TSA airport checkpoint as shutdown continues

Airport security: TSA workers protest government shutdown

CHICAGO - MARCH 15: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers staff a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport on March 15, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Today TSA personnel are scheduled to begin using the Backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology full-body scanners at the airport. Twenty airports nationwide are now using full-body scanners. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:39:56-05:00January 11th, 2019|News|Comments Off on Airport security: TSA workers protest government shutdown

Lone wolf drone Grinch steals Christmas by invading UK airport

Image from Vector Stock: https://www.vectorstock.com By Matt Wilkinson, Neal Baker, Abe Hawken and Alex Matthews, TheSun GATWICK Airport is back open this morning as chaos caused by an 'eco warrior lone-wolf' drone pilot rages into its THIRD day. Around 21 planes an hour are departing Britain's second biggest airport but thousands of people still [...]

By |2018-12-21T07:50:16-05:00December 21st, 2018|News|Comments Off on Lone wolf drone Grinch steals Christmas by invading UK airport

Christmas holiday fliers to hit record 46 million, TSA says

Ashley Halsey III, The Washington Post, LMTonline.com If you are hankering to be one among millions this holiday, do not bother with the shopping malls, just head to the airport, where nearly 46 million people will mix travel anxiety with Christmas anxiety and a tad of family-get-together anxiety to create a merry little stew of [...]

By |2018-12-18T06:27:37-05:00December 18th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Christmas holiday fliers to hit record 46 million, TSA says

300+ loaded guns seized at airport security checkpoints by TSA in October

From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews: Washington DC November 13 2018 -- The Transportation Security Administration has said it confiscated more than 300 loaded guns at airport security checkpoints around the country in October. In a blog post on Friday, the TSA outlined its stats for the month: 358 firearms in carry-on bags were discovered at 105 airports around the [...]

By |2018-11-14T06:32:07-05:00November 14th, 2018|News|Comments Off on 300+ loaded guns seized at airport security checkpoints by TSA in October

Thanksgiving 2018 travel will be busiest ever, TSA says

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Travel experts are already predicting the busiest Thanksgiving season at the airport on record. This year’s holiday is also expected to last longer than normal, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported Tuesday. The lineups at LaGuardia Airport are still calm, but in just over a week it will be mobbed. LIKE the IFPO on [...]

By |2018-11-07T06:32:20-05:00November 7th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Thanksgiving 2018 travel will be busiest ever, TSA says

First facial recognition kiosks in US to debut at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson

From privateofficerbreakingnews: Atlanta GA Sept 22 2018 -- Delta Air Lines plans to launch what it calls the nation’s first “biometric terminal” by deploying facial recognition at multiple points in the international terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson. At the Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal and Concourse F at the Atlanta airport, Delta plans to use facial recognition [...]

By |2018-09-24T06:09:13-04:00September 24th, 2018|News|Comments Off on First facial recognition kiosks in US to debut at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has homeless epidemic

KELLY YAMANOUCHI ON FEB 5, 2018 SOURCE: MCCLATCHY, SecurityInfoWatch.com Feb. 02--Atlanta airport officials like to boast that Hartsfield-Jackson International is the world's busiest and most efficient airport, with a terminal that always looks "opening day fresh." But over the past few months, the airport's domestic terminal has become more known for being filled with homeless people [...]

By |2018-02-05T20:11:10-05:00February 5th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has homeless epidemic

Oakland International Airport Selected as TSA innovation site

  SOURCE: OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (OAK) JAN 2, 2018 Oakland International Airport (OAK) on Dec. 30, reports that it has been selected as an official Innovation Task Force Site.  The distinction will allow OAK to try out new technologies to benefit its growing passenger base. The trial program will begin in OAK’s Terminal 2 in partnership with [...]

By |2018-01-05T08:08:34-05:00January 5th, 2018|News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Oakland International Airport Selected as TSA innovation site

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