‘Win-Win For Everything’: Sacramento Airport Mulls Replacing TSA With Private Security Company
- Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:14pm by
Jason Howerton
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The Sacramento International Airport is thinking about giving TSA agents the boot and replacing them with security agents from a private company, CBS Sacramento reports.
(Related: ‘A New Era of Reform’: TSA Tentatively Allows Private Security Screeners in Orlando)
The airport would become the third largest airport in the United States to replace government workers with ones from a private company. Airports in San Francisco and Kansas have already cut ties with the TSA as well as 14 smaller airports.
The TSA has faced a steady flow of criticism for alleged privacy rights violations and intrusive pat-down techniques.
“It’s a win-win for everything [and] has no bearing on security procedure or the processes the public has become accustomed to,” said Linda Beech Cutler, a spokesperson for the Sacramento International Airport.
Airport officials insist that the change will not increase costs and will not compromise customer safety. TSA will actually manage the new company that replaces them.
“It might be better, less intrusive on us. I don’t like how the government runs their business,” said one flyer.
More from CBS Sacramento:
“They will issue proposals, evaluate the private security companies and ultimately choose the company that would operate here,” said Cutler.
Airport officials say them having more control means more flexibility and better customer serviceand faster lines.
“Makes us more flexible for staffing, for peak times and not being so staffed up for not so busy times,” said Cutler.
The security change-up could take up to a year to take effect if it is approved. Current TSA employees at the airport can apply to become part of the new private security team.
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anOpinion
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:58am“It’s a win-win for everything [and] has no bearing on security procedure or the processes the public has become accustomed to,”
Any time you see “public has become accustomed to”, it means lose-lose, not win-win.
Report Post »KC1
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:33pmWatch and learn. You think Romney is on our side? Try again, just about every issue you Beck worshipers complain about Romney supports and the Paulinistas continue to fighting against. You have been duped by these mormon progressives. Romney is a progressive and the only difference between him and Obama is the child like rhetoric.
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LibTardHater
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:19pmWhy don’t people stop flying for a month and all this TSA crap will disappear. With today’s internet technology, there is absolutely no reason any business person must fly. I’ve been airline free since 2005…..best business decision I’ve ever made.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:07pmMall cops at the airport. Yippy
Report Post »Lawrence7
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:43pmI stopped flying about three years ago. I can no longer stomach the incompetence of TSA and the overall hassles of flying under their dictation.
Not complaining about individual TSA agents, they’re just doing their jobs. It is what TSA is teaching them to do and knowing that most of the TSA rules are pointess and needless, that gets my goat. So I can’t protest the TSA directly but I can stop using Airports and Airlines. Eventually folks will get the point as the publics use of the airline industry continues to shrink.
Report Post »Arshloch
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:41pmNo ‘mulling necessary- get rid of the tsa.
Report Post »blameitonthechange
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:10pmI feel sorry for the security officers that end up working after the TSA. They‘ll bear the brunt of the TSA’s reputation, be driven nuts with the constant re-definition of their job title and let’s face facts: the security industry doesn’t have a steller image either. I’d dump the whole “quazi-cop” image and put the screeners under the concierge umbrella with their fingers on the panic button, with trained police personnel on stand by to take care of the more sensative stuff.
Report Post »Daveed
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:50pmIf TSA manages, only under a different name, it still TSA and still will be just as nasty. Another global Liberal communist switch er roo.
I agree with Progressiveslayer, they are not touching my goodies, I save that for husband!
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:09pmAgree with Daveed.
If it‘s TSA slobs grabbing your junk or it’s private security firm working for TSA slobs grabbing your junk, you’re still being treated like an animal. Apparently there’s a lot of people in this country that are ok with that because they are animals…Sheep.
Report Post »blameitonthechange
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:25pmI agree with SCAZ. It’s the whole liberal “Image is everything” B.S. All they’re doing is changing their uniforms. I’d even be willing to bet a lot of the TSA people will still be there copping a feel, but in a pretty white shirt instead of a pretty blue one. Oh, and they’ll probably be paid a whole lot less than when they were TSA.
Report Post »eagledown
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:26pmMaybe so, but at least their boss isn‘t Obama and the workers can get fired if they get caught groping too long with eye’s roll up in the backs of there heads like the Rob Snider’s “Organism Guy” character.
Report Post »sjohn70037
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:50pmAs a professional traveler I wish every city would throw TSA out and give the jobs to the private sector. You wouldn’t believe the incompetence I witness on a weekly basis.
Report Post »Daveed
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:24pmThat is a good thing. TSA makes me want to throw up, it is just nasty. It was done to lead the cattle (American people to a certain place). Where ever that is don’t go!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:20pmThe TSA is nothing more than the beginning of a NKVD type group (soviet Russia’s home gestapo).
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:56pmThe Sacramento International Airport is thinking about giving TSA agents the boot and replacing them with security agents from a private company, CBS Sacramento reports.
It should read: The Sacramento International Airport is thinking about giving TSA agents the jack boot. This apparent capitulation by TSA is just that apparent because TSA will still manage the ‘private’ company,it‘s smoke and mirrors folks that’s all this is.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:41pmSacramento is where I fly to for visits with my family. I love that little airport, it’s quick and easy from getting into it, and to the plane, and easy going home. I haven‘t flown since TSA came along and wasen’t looking forward to it, this news makes me very happy. I have “extra parts” and I wasen’t excited about being groped.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:39pmSo the TSA will be managing the companies employed to replace them?
As all intrusive as the TSA has become, expanding ever outward across so many other areas of the nation, why does anyone honestly think Obama will not simply have Homeland Insecurity declare all the replacement companies are now nationalized or something to that effect.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:27pmIt‘s not like they’re going to be fired or anything. They’ve already moved into bus stations train stations and our highways. Don’t for one second think you will be able to avoid the TSA by simply not flying.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:50pmThey’re not touching my family jewels! Those are reserved for only the hottest women.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:03pmProgSlayer, And if you snap because they want to fondle your family, and I find myself on that jury… I’ll hang that jury in a heart beat! ;)
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:51pmLMAO Thanks brother !
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