{"id":28694,"date":"2012-03-17T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=28694"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T18:03:14","slug":"tsa-relaxes-rules-on-airport-screening-for-travelers-75-and-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/tsa-relaxes-rules-on-airport-screening-for-travelers-75-and-older\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA relaxes rules on airport screening for travelers 75 and older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers 75 years old and older will be allowed to leave their shoes and a lightweight jacket on when they pass through airport screenings at four U.S. airports starting Monday, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of a pilot program that also allows older passengers to pass through metal detectors or body scanners more than once to resolve security issues if an alarm goes off. &#8220;We know people in that population and age group pose a lower risk to security,&#8221; TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers says. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to reduce the number of pat-downs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/travel\/takingoff\/la-trb-tsa-older-passengers-revisions-20120315,0,7269911.story\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=a9cdc244-f82f-4dbc-b738-5da27b9f5b4e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers 75 years old and older will be allowed to leave their shoes and a lightweight jacket on when they pass through airport screenings at four U.S. airports starting Monday, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday. It&#8217;s part of a pilot program that also allows older passengers to pass through metal detectors or body scanners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[8295,1069,2304,536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28697,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694\/revisions\/28697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}