Today, Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Scott Brown (R-MA), both members “of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation to improve the safety of American airports by enhancing air passenger screening programs and bolstering state and local law enforcement partnerships to deter terrorism,” according to a press release.
The Aviation Security Innovation & Reform (AIR) Act seeks to standardize the training of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) screening workforce by ensuring that every Transportation Security Officer receives increased baseline training nationwide and anti-terrorism training with bi-annual re-certifications.
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The AIR act would address these issues by setting higher performance standards for screeners and raising the minimum training requirements to improve screeners ability to spot potential terrorists. It would also create an office to coordinate all of the behavior detection programs within TSA and the Department of Homeland Security that help TSA personnel spot terrorist suspects and other criminals without using expensive technology. There are currently disparate programs throughout the Department that study and implement behavior detection. This bill would bring them together all under one roof. Lastly, it would improve state and local law enforcement partnerships, which is something that is crucial to thwarting terrorism plots.
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