The Transportation Security Administration has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit with a Hermosa Beach mother who sued the agency after a disagreement over breast milk at a security checkpoint.
The settlement will be finalized next month. As part of the agreement, TSA screeners will have to be retrained on how to deal with mothers traveling with breast milk.
Surveillance video from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport shows Stacey Armato, 34, arriving at a TSA checkpoint with two containers of breast milk. Armato didn't want the milk to be X-rayed, so she asked for an alternate screening. She says that touched off a 40-minute ordeal at the hands of several TSA agents.
"I was told right off the bat that the milk had to go through either X-ray or to be thrown in the trash," said Armato.
Armato had just given birth to a baby boy when the surveillance video was shot back in January 2010. Full story...
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The settlement will be finalized next month. As part of the agreement, TSA screeners will have to be retrained on how to deal with mothers traveling with breast milk.
Surveillance video from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport shows Stacey Armato, 34, arriving at a TSA checkpoint with two containers of breast milk. Armato didn't want the milk to be X-rayed, so she asked for an alternate screening. She says that touched off a 40-minute ordeal at the hands of several TSA agents.
"I was told right off the bat that the milk had to go through either X-ray or to be thrown in the trash," said Armato.
Armato had just given birth to a baby boy when the surveillance video was shot back in January 2010. Full story...
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