Employees at airport screened superficially

Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration say a variety of security measures ensure airport workers are properly screened for explosives or weapons, even though most do not have to walk through metal detectors or put their bags through X-ray machines like passengers. But a Newark Liberty International Airport worker provided The Star-Ledger with the following cell-phone video of a special employee checkpoint in Terminal C, where private guards appear to barely glance inside the employees' bags as they enter the secure areas of the airport. The employees can be seen first swiping their access cards and entering a personal identification number before opening their bags for inspection. They then walk up steps to a door to the airport's secure areas.

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[baystategirl]

I work at a different airport in this country and we have to go through security just like the passengers do, we just have to show our airport badges so we can cut the line. Just becuase we passed a thorough backround check does not mean that someone without a criminal record will not try and do something. this is rediculous.

[browneyes4]

This is a real security threat! The enemy is within!

[hhybridx]

I work and enter through the terminal c security entrance...Consider we all went through extensive background checks before getting hired where a customer has not...