Meeting with the TSA
Guru Fateh to all.
I was invited at the meeting of the TSA yesterday. It went very smoothly and was very fruitful for all. There were all kinds of people; mute, deaf, with disabilities- hidden and/or the visible ones, blind and many on the wheel chairs for the same.
Some...
WASHINGTON DC (December 14, 2013)
SALDEF, the nation’s oldest Sikh American civil rights organization, received the first ever Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Community Partnership Award presented at TSA’s Annual Coalition Conference held at the Ronald Reagan Washington National...
Are Sikhs turban-wearing TSA targets? App tracks claims of profiling
Sikh Coalition has updated an app that allows travelers to report complaints about TSA harassment or racial profiling.
By Robin Abcarian
November 26, 2013, 9:33 a.m.
Amardeep Singh is a typical American guy -- born...
TSA: Body Scanners Cannot See Through Turbans
More screenings for Sikhs
By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau
Posted: Thursday, January 13, 2011 | 07:11 pm
The Transportation and Security Administration will use secondary screening measures for turbans, such as a...
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By Tara Bahrampour
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 10:22 PM
Ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a trip to the airport has been fraught for Muslims, who sometimes feel they are being profiled as potential terrorists because of their religion. The...
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) had a conversation with TSA Administrator Kip Hawley regarding the agency’s headwear screening policy, which impacted Sikh American passengers; a conversation which Honda qualified as “encouraging and...
WASHINGTON DC: Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA – 32) introduced a written testimony on behalf of UNITED SIKHS at the House Judiciary Sub committee Hearing on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on June 17, 2010 addressing concerns of racial profiling of Sikhs at airports...
Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in.
Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces?
Unfortunately, it's no joke...
Transportation Security Administration screeners can now search the turbans of Sikh men even if they don't set off metal detectors, NBC11 reported. The rule was put in place August 4.
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The Sikh Coalition, the nation's largest Sikh civil rights organization, strongly opposes new headwear screening procedures put in place by the Transportation Security Administration on August 4, 2007. TSA officials told the Sikh Coalition that the new Standard Operating Procedure includes a...
washingtonpost.com - President Bush yesterday nominated Edmund S. "Kip" Hawley, a supply-chain technology consultant from California, to head the Transportation Security Administration...
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