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Secondary Security Screening Selection or '''Secondary Security Screening Selectee''', known by its Acronym '''SSSS''', is an Airport Security measure in the United States which randomly selects passengers for additional inspection. This may also be known as '''Selectee''', '''Automatic Selectee''' or the '''Selectee list'''.


HOW DOES IT WORK?

The system works by selecting passengers who meet certain criteria at the time their Boarding Pass is issued. According to sources, the following are some of the points observed to assign a passenger with SSSS:

There are some criteria that will always create a selectee, such as a One-way Reservation , made within twenty-four hours. Some other criteria that ''sometimes'' generate a SSSS are:

  • Passengers travelling alone.

  • 2 passengers.

  • Passengers travelling as a group.

  • Random selection in its entirety.

  • Passengers travelling together who share certain characteristics such as their Last Name .

  • Passengers who change their flight at the last minute.

  • Passengers who pay cash for their tickets.

  • Passengers who carry no luggage.

  • Passengers whose Identification is invalid.


Since neither the TSA nor the airline run a Background Check at the time boarding passes are issued, Immigration Status and Criminal Record s are not taken into consideration during SSSS. Furthermore, personal information such as a passenger's addresses, employment history, and Medical Record s are not taken into account during SSSS and may not even be readily available to government officials to modify the process and increase its validity. Some believe the lack of information accessed in SSSS gives credence to the belief that selection is random rather than objective.


PROCEDURE WHEN SELECTED

  • S--- (all capitals) printed on their boarding passes. In the case of Southwest Airlines, secondary screening selectees will have a "checkerboard" pattern printed on their boarding passes. SSSS passengers will go through a more intensive screening process which may include Puffer Explosive Detectors . Their carry-on luggage, may be also be inspected by hand. In the case of film or other items that cannot be X-ray ed, the agent may perform a test for possible explosive materials. The screener may also use a hand held Metal Detector to search the passenger for metal objects.



RANDOMNESS


Since the process acts on the accumulation of certain criteria rather than mathematical Probability , it is expected that subjects may be elected more than once or more often than others. This has cause the public to believe the process is not random but instead Discriminatory . In reality, it is a selective process in which candidates who fall under a pre-determined category are chosen. Nonetheless, the process may rely, intermittently, in randomness, when subjects do not fall under any category and this becomes the mathematical variable.


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EXTERNAL LINKS


  • Happening Here – Miscellaneous posts about the No Fly and Selectee lists and being removed from them

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