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Edward Hasbrouck has the goods on the no-fly lawsuit brought by the ACLU in Washington State.
The government filed a number of documents, some in secret, some public. The secret ones include a number of security directives to airlines. The public ones include the forms used by the TSA Ombudsman in the process of trying to help those caught by the no-fly and selectee lists for having a name similar or the same as the person actually put on the list.
Here's those docs (.pdf).
The process works like this: you contact the TSA ombudsman at 571.227.2383 (or 571.227.1449) or by email at ombudsman@dhs.gov. You explain what's happening to you and if they think you are being snagged because of your name (and not because you bought one-way tickets or paid with cash or made a last minute reservation), they send you a Passenger Identity Verification Form.
You fill that out and give them your office phone, SSN, address, place of birth, height, hair color, etc.
You also have to provide them with copies of 3 of the following:
1. Passport
2. Visa (no, not your credit card)
3. Certified Birth Certificate (if you need one of these you go online and order one from the state you were born for $15 bucks or so)
4. Naturalization Certificate
5. Voter Registration Card
6. Driver's License
7. Government Identity Card
8. Military Card
Then you get those notarized.
(Note that having three of these is a pain in the ass, especially for anyone who is not registered to vote or does not have a passport.)
After they get this, they do some sort of identity authorization, primarily based on your social security number. I assume that Lexis-Nexis or Acxiom or Choicepoint is used.
Then if you are lucky, you and your information gets put on a list of people cleared off the list. This get-off-the-list list is then sent to the airlines. From then on you should bring at least two forms of identification and the airlines are supposed to clear you faster.
Posted by Ryan Singel at November 9, 2004 01:04 PM
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I have been told that somebody with my name is on a TSA watch list. To "prove my identity" (what an Orwellian concept), the Passenger Identity Verification Form requires me to submit my SS# and numerous forms of ID. The TSA then says that ALL of this information can and will go to foreign and domestic airlines. So my identity will be hanging out there in the public arena. Great -- I'm so comforted.
Posted by: David Johnson at March 9, 2005 01:56 PM
I was recently added to this list. I was told by the ever caring folks at TSA that it is so backed up it will take 6-12 months for them to process the information. To make this thing even more rediculous, I told the TSA person I only had two of the necessary forms of ID. She recommended I go get a passport. amazing I would have no trouble getting a passport but that they can't take me off a list.
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