Orlando Sentinel: Florida needs more help to fight terror

Mike · Aug 29, 2011

Editorial for privatization -- let Florida address its own needs although in the end I suspect they would want to fund it from the federal teat ...

Orlando Sentinel: Florida needs more help to fight terror

But also blame stubborn or misguided policymakers and agencies for failing to do what could make Florida safer.

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Two major airports now screen airport employees as often as they do passengers. More Coast Guard teams guard ports. And local governments hold emergency-response training exercises that encompass chemical spills and hijackings.

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But the Transportation Security Administration continues to promote its porous, random-screening approach for airport employees — leaving Orlando and Miami as the only commercial airports that check all employees daily. Other airports, like Orlando Sanford International, have asked the TSA to let them use private companies for security. Airports in San Francisco, Kansas City — even Key West — do well doing exactly that. But the TSA won't allow it. It insists on both regulating and operating airport security operations — an arrangement experts call absurd. Better to let the TSA police more private operations.
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Also objecting to lax hiring processes at ports:

But improved security at Florida's ports received a blow this year when the Legislature axed post 9-11 regulations that had made it harder for people with criminal records such as burglary to gain port access. Regulations that toughened barriers also were eased, so Florida wouldn't lose business to other states. Talk about shortsighted.
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