"ACLU: Airport searches sexually harassing"

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

ACLU: Airport searches sexually harassing
United Press International


New York, NY, (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday it
has posted an online complaint form to report sexual harassment at airline
security gates. 
 
The ACLU said women remain susceptible to sexual harassment at airline
security gates.

The Transportation Security Administration "is subjecting many women to
groping and sexual harassment that does not serve any real, justified
security purpose," said Lenora Lapidus, director of the ACLU's Women's
Rights Project. "Women who have been subject to humiliating searches can
help us fight this misguided security policy by visiting our Web site and
letting us know about their experience."

Media accounts and complaints filed by passengers across the country with
the ACLU say TSA screeners have been widely disregarding the agency's own
guidelines as well as common standards of decency, including "rough, rude,
and humiliating manhandling and groping on, around, and between their
breasts and in their crotch area."

The complaint form as well as other information about airport pat-down
searches can be accessed at aclu.org/patdowns.


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