Capitol Hill Briefing 

# Airport Body-Scanning: Will TSA Follow the Law? 

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Date and Time 

July 19, 2012 12:30 - 2:15 PM EDT 

Location 

2212 Rayburn House Office Building 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Ginger McCall**, Director, Open Government Program, Electronic Privacy Information Center; **Marc Scribner**, Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute; **John Mueller**, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by **Jim Harper**, Director, Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

Last July the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Transportation Security Administration must do a “notice-and-comment” rulemaking on its policy of sending passengers through Advanced Imaging Technology machines (aka “body-scanners” or “strip-search machines”) and putting people who refuse the machines through a prison-style pat-down. The TSA is supposed to publish its policy in the *Federal Register*, take comments from the public, and issue a final rule that responds to public input. It has been a year since that ruling, and TSA hasn’t even started the process. Come learn about the lawsuit that produced the ruling, the effort to get TSA to do a rulemaking, and some of the information the TSA will have to consider when it follows the court’s ruling.

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