TSA to change procedures for passengers with body piercings

Sunday, March 30, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- The Transportation Security Administration said it will change the way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane.

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