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TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-step-forward,-one-step-back dept.

schwit1 writes "Laurie Iacuzza walked to her waiting car at the Greater Rochester International Airport after returning from a trip and that's when she found it — a notice saying her car was inspected after she left for her flight. She said, 'I was furious. They never mentioned it to me when I booked the valet or when I picked up the car or when I dropped it off.' Iacuzza's car was inspected by valet attendants on orders from the TSA."

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  1. Re:The joys of private property ... by Scareduck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nonsense. The problem here is using a third, private party to elide the Fourth Amendment.

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  2. Didn't you notice who's doing the searching? by scotts13 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to the article, the valets themselves. Mot TSA agents, minimum wage, no-background-check valets. They're the last people to be in the car, and they decide where to park them. Anyone else see the two glaring problems here?

  3. Reasonable Expectation of Privacy by cervesaebraciator · · Score: 4, Interesting
    FTA:

    We found out it happened to her because she valet parked her car. Those are the only cars that get inspected. So if security feels it is necessary to search some cars in the name of safety, why not search all of them?

    They'd probably like to be able to search any car that comes to the airport. Even so, I imagine they restrict searches to valet parked cars for two reasons: 1) they've the keys in hand and so it's easy; 2) more importantly, some lawyer probably told them that they could make the case in court that valet parked cars have no reasonable expectation of privacy.