New York NY April 2 2020 The TSA’s director of security at several metro-area airports has tested positive for the coronavirus. “This is obviously not the lottery I wanted to hit, but I will press on through it,” Robert Duffy — the federal Transportation Security Administration’s director of security at LaGuardia, Islip, Westchester and upstate […]
New York City NY March 30 2020 A LaGuardia Airport security guard and single mother of two who is bedridden with coronavirus now fears her two daughters may have caught the illness from her. Haidi Torrico, 43, started getting headaches and feeling pain in her lungs last Monday while at work supervising an employees-only entrance […]
HOUSTON, Texas March 30 2020 They’re known for protecting us on highways and interstates, and now the men and women in Stetsons and ‘Texas Tan’ uniforms are on duty at airports around the state, including here in Houston. Texas Dept. of Public Safety troopers are now screening passengers arriving from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and […]
WASHINGTON DC March 25 2020 The Transportation Security Administration is reporting that 24 screening officers at 10 airports around the country have now tested positive for the coronavirus. It also says an additional five employees who have limited interaction with travelers have also tested positive. Those numbers from Monday are up from just seven employees a […]
Orlando FL March 22 2020 TSA now says that at least 12 TSA agents have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. At least three were in Florida. An Orlando TSA officer tested positive, the officer’s last day of work was on March 10. She was working the 1 p.m. to 9:30 p.m shift at Checkpoint […]
ATLANTA GA March 19 2020 – Officials confirm a motorist breached security at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport by driving past security guards into a sensitive area where planes line up to take off. It happened on Thursday morning. At the checkpoint station, private guards who work for the city saw the motorist and called police. Officers […]
Dallas TX March 17 2020 At least six Transportation Security Administration officers have tested positive for the new coronavirus and dozens were in self-quarantine Monday as the disease takes an increasing toll on an agency critical to safety of U.S. aviation. TSA said it was providing safety training to employees and operations were running smoothly. […]
Washington DC March 15 2020 The union representing Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) says TSA is not doing enough to protect officers and the flying public from COVID-19. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents nearly 46,000 TSA officers nationwide, is calling on the agency to increase safety protocols after three officers at San […]
Washington DC March 13 2020 Three security screeners at a Northern California airport have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Transportation Security Administration confirmed in an email late Tuesday. The transportation security officers, all of whom work at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, are the first confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus […]
SAN ANTONIO TX March 12 2020 A 21-year-old Austin man was sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison Tuesday for assaulting a TSA employee outside Austin-Bergstrom International Airport late last year. Federal prosecutors said the victim was driving to work on November 5, 2019 and stopped for a traffic light near the airport entrance. The victim […]