{"id":402284,"date":"2010-03-05T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=36006"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:07:28","slug":"body-scanners-are-headed-to-11-major-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/402284","title":{"rendered":"Body scanners are headed to 11 major airports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Frank
\nUSA TODAY<\/a>
\nFriday, March 5, 2010<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Eleven major airports will begin using body scanners<\/a> to screen passengers as the Transportation Security Administration<\/a> launches a plan to buy 1,000 of the machines over the next two years. The scanners can look under passengers\u2019 clothing in order to detect weapons and explosives.<\/p>\n

Boston Logan International Airport received one new scanner this week and will get two more next week. All will go into the same terminal. Among the other airports getting the scanners are Los Angeles International, Chicago O\u2019Hare and Charlotte Douglas International.<\/p>\n

The Transportation Security Administration<\/a> bought 150 scanners in September using $25 million from the federal stimulus package. It plans to buy 300 more this year and 500 next year. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered the installation accelerated after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of an airliner over Detroit.<\/p>\n

The scanners, made by California-based Rapiscan, are 9 feet long and 6\u00bd feet wide, much larger than metal detectors. Airport screeners view images from the machines in a nearby closed room.<\/p>\n

Full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Possibly Related Posts:<\/h3>\n