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Tom Sawyer, experienced rough airport patdown: "I'm kind of ambivalent at the moment about TSA and moving forward. I don't see the moving forward."
A local man says the TSA has broken a promise. Three months after an embarrassing airport patdown, a former DeWitt High School teacher says the TSA isn't following through to make sure passengers with medical conditions are treated with respect. Tom Sawyer says TSA officials aren't keeping up their end of the bargain.
Tom Sawyer: "I left the meeting feeling very good and I thought it was the government at its best in action, I really did. I was very pleased and now I'm wondering."
Wondering because it's been three months since Tom Sawyer met with Transportation Security Administration officials in Washington DC to brainstorm ways TSA agents could better respect passengers with medical conditions.
Tom Sawyer: "We talked about the badges that they have on their website now that maybe would alleviate some of it, more thorough training of the TSA agents in medical conditions."
That meeting, motivated by what happened to sawyer last November, when a rough airport patdown ruptured his urostomy bag.
Tom Sawyer: "Off came the urostomy bag and urine."
An embarrassing moment that quickly gained national attention, motivating Sawyer to work with the TSA to make sure other travelers with medical conditions were treated with more dignity...[Full Article]
