Tag: TSA
Atlanta’s latest coronavirus updates: Tuesday, May 26
During the holiday weekend, Georgians took to the great outdoors. Here’s your Tuesday morning update:
Long security lines partly behind Hartsfield-Jackson airport chief’s ouster
In firing Miguel Southwell, Mayor Kasim Reed aims to look at privatizing airport screening.
Someone brought a corpse through the Atlanta TSA checkpoint . . . sort of
Travelers might have been shocked to see a corpse prop from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie scanned by the TSA.
At Hartsfield-Jackson airport, it’s not always the travelers who pose the safety risk
“That kind of trafficking—whether it’s money or guns—within the airport, it creates an additional layer of harm to the community,” says John Horn, U.S. attorney in Atlanta. “The airport is such a huge institution to [Atlanta]; we have the obligation to make sure that it’s safe.”
How the TSA became an Instagram star
Hear “Transportation Security Administration” and you imagine stern-faced agents inspecting carry-ons. But the TSA as social media mavens? You bet.