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Fla. airports get more screeners
Early Edition: Additonal workers are screening passengers in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
By Steve Huettel
Published March 13, 2007
The federal government stepped up random screening of airport employees in Florida, including at Tampa International, after two airline workers in Orlando were arrested last week for allegedly smuggling 14 guns onto an airplane.
The Transportation Security Administration sent 150 additional officers to airports in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
They are checking ID badges, screening airport workers and searching airplanes before passengers board.
The move comes as some members of Congress are calling for screening all 900,000 airport workers with ID badges allowing them to go onto airplanes and into secure areas of airports without passing through metal detectors.
The TSA has been conducting random screenings at Tampa International since November.
[Last modified March 13, 2007, 12:43:41]
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