{"id":224447,"date":"2012-11-14T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=224447"},"modified":"2012-11-15T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T17:20:55","slug":"simpson-files-bill-challenging-enhanced-pat-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=224447","title":{"rendered":"Simpson Files Bill Challenging Enhanced Pat-Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=224448\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-224448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/11\/thumb_David-Simpson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_David-Simpson\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-224448\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2014 Legislation filed in Austin by an East Texan would make it illegal for TSA agents to perform the so-called \u201cenhanced pat-downs.\u201d Under the bill filed by State Representative David Simpson of Longview, TSA agents who perform such actions could be charged with a misdemeanor crime. Simpson says, \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that Texas will lead the way in reining in this abuse.\u201d The last time such a bill passed, it was pulled when the U.S. attorney general threatened to cancel flights to Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Legislation filed in Austin by an East Texan would make it illegal for TSA agents to perform the so-called \u201cenhanced pat-downs.\u201d Under the bill filed by State Representative David Simpson of Longview, TSA agents who perform such actions could be charged with a misdemeanor crime. Simpson says, \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that Texas will lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=224447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simpson Files Bill Challenging Enhanced Pat-Downs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 07:30:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224640,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224447\/revisions\/224640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}