TSA admits error screening elderly women
Photo credit: AP | Lenore Zimmerman in a family photo. Zimmerman, 85, who arrived in a wheelchair for a flight at Kennedy Airport on Nov. 29, 2011, said that she was required to go through a strip search after she asked to be patted down instead.
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Transportation Security Administration officials have acknowledged that screeners at Kennedy Airport violated policy last fall when they asked two elderly women to show medical devices worn beneath their clothing.
"It is not standard operating procedure for colostomy devices to be visually inspected, and TSA also apologizes for this employee's action," Betsay Markey, an assistant secretary...
