Here's some proof of that from The Detroit News:
A Florida woman is reeling after her 95-year-old mother was embarrassed by having to take off her adult diaper at the Northwest Regional Airport while heading to Michigan.And when she began crying during the search, the TSA took that as a sign that this 95-year old woman was indeed the next bin Laden. Good freaking grief already. She should have known crying makes things worse: Video: Woman Cries And Begs For Help After Being Molested By TSA Agent. At least one man is doing something about it though, my very own state Rep Tom McMillin: Lawmaker wants to criminalize ‘intrusive’ searches by airport screeners
Jean Weber has alerted the Department of Homeland Security after her mother was ordered to take off the diaper in order to complete a pat-down search last weekend.
Her mother, who is in the end stage of a battle with leukemia, was heading to Hastings, Mich., southeast of Grand Rapids, to visit her last living brother and other family members before possibly dying, Weber said.
"At that time, all I could think about is why they are doing this to a 95-year-old woman who is in a wheelchair? She's in ill health and she just wanted to go home," Weber told The News from her home in Destin, Fla., Sunday afternoon.
Weber's mother reportedly was detained for nearly 45 minutes while she was searched. She was first pulled aside into a glass-partitioned area before being taken to another room for a more expensive search.
That's when security officials said they needed her mother to take off her Depends diaper because it was blocking their search.
"She had wet her Depends and it gelled up," Weber said.
An Oakland County lawmaker is taking aim at the Transportation Security Administration and how its agents perform airport passenger security checks.And here I naively thought we already had such a law in place - the 4th amendment of the US Constitution against unreasonable search and seizure.
State Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, wants to make it a misdemeanor for any TSA employee to “conduct an intrusive, personal search on citizens without reasonable cause.”
The legislation introduced Thursday by McMillin was referred to the state House Judiciary Committee.
McMillin referenced a recent incident at Detroit Metropolitan Airport “where a 29-year-old special needs passenger was subject to an allegedly intrusive search.”
“The federal government is not God,” McMillin said Friday. “It doesn’t get to decide what it can do to our citizens. This is one law that needs to be in place.”