April 06, 2004
ACLU challenges no-fly list
Seven people, including an Air Force sergeant and a retired minister, sued the government Tuesday, saying that they had been wrongly placed on "no-fly" lists and subjected to humiliating interrogation and intrusive searches at airports.Posted by Norwood at April 6, 2004 09:05 PMThe national class-action suit, filed in Seattle by the American Civil Liberties Union, seeks to force the federal Transportation Security Administration to develop an effective grievance system for people mistakenly singled out in anti-terrorism screenings.
"Our clients are completely innocent of any wrongdoing and possess no affiliation with terrorists or criminal activity," said Reginald Shuford, the lead ACLU lawyer on the case. "Worst of all, beyond the stigma, there is no way at all to clear one's name from the no-fly list once placed on it."
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