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Old 05-13-2011, 10:21 AM
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Default Texas House Bans Offensive Security Pat-Downs

Texas lawmakers with little opposition passed a law that makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person” including through clothing. Also, it forbids searches that would "be offensive to a reasonable person". (I'm gathering they don't mean Janet Napolitano)

Will it be challenged as being superseded by Federal Law? If Texas state law is challenged, will it then go to the Supreme Court? Can the Federal government count on the Supremes to support it's contention of the loss of 4th Amendment rights, and rights to personal privacy at the nation's airports?

Now that Texas has broken the ice, I expect we'll see more of this sort of law. The Federal Government is officially on notice.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/05/13/t...ity-pat-downs/