{"id":79493,"date":"2026-10-03T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/tsa-to-prohibit-airport-security-officers-from-sitting-down-while-checking-travelers-ids\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:56:12","slug":"tsa-to-prohibit-airport-security-officers-from-sitting-down-while-checking-travelers-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/tsa-to-prohibit-airport-security-officers-from-sitting-down-while-checking-travelers-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA to prohibit airport security officers from sitting down while checking travelers\u2019 IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSA says rule change is meant to keep officers \u2018alert\u2019, but union says it ignores safety and \u2018common decency\u2019<\/p>\n<p>US airport security officers who verify boarding passes and IDs ahead of security checkpoints will no longer be allowed to sit down while working.<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was moving forward with this change in policy to keep officers \u201calert\u201d, the agency confirmed recently.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/03\/tsa-rule-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSA says rule change is meant to keep officers \u2018alert\u2019, but union says it ignores safety and \u2018common decency\u2019 US airport security officers who verify boarding passes and IDs ahead of security checkpoints will no longer be allowed to sit down while working. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was moving forward with this change in &#8230; <a title=\"TSA to prohibit airport security officers from sitting down while checking travelers\u2019 IDs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/tsa-to-prohibit-airport-security-officers-from-sitting-down-while-checking-travelers-ids\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about TSA to prohibit airport security officers from sitting down while checking travelers\u2019 IDs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}