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The '''Transportation Security Administration''' was formed immediately following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].  The agency is a component of the [[Department of Homeland Security]] (DHS) and is responsible for security of the nation's transportation systems.

The '''Transportation Security Administration''' was formed immediately following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].  The agency is a component of the [[Department of Homeland Security]] (DHS) and is responsible for security of the nation's transportation systems.

With state, local and regional partners, TSA oversees security for the [[highway]]s, [[railroad]]s, [[bus]]es, [[mass transit]] systems, ports and the 450 U.S. [[airport]]s.  TSA employs approximately 50,000 people from [[Alaska]] to [[Puerto Rico]] to ensure your travels – by plane, train, automobile or ferry – are safe and secure.

With state, local and regional partners, TSA oversees security for the [[highway]]s, [[railroad]]s, [[bus]]es, [[mass transit]] systems, ports and the 450 U.S. [[airport]]s.  TSA employs approximately 50,000 people from [[Alaska]] to [[Puerto Rico]] for the stated purpose of ensuring that travel – by plane, train, automobile or ferry – is safe and secure.

== History ==

== History ==

The TSA was formed immediately in the events following in the aftermath of the [[September 11th, 2001 attacks]] in [[New York City]] and [[Washington D.C.]]. It was officially established upon the signing of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act by President [[George W. Bush]] on November 19, 2001. The TSA (at the time, a part of the U.S. [[Department of Transportation]]) was founded as a replacement for the Federal Security Division of the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA), which previously oversaw the contraction and execution of security screening procedures in airports nationwide prior to 9/11. Prior to the September 11th attacks, the FAA had supervised the contracting out by individual airports with various Security companies in order to utilize the company's Security Officers to screen passengers and their luggage at airport security checkpoints, a practice which had been in place since the 1970s when [[metal detector]]s were first introduced in airports following an upstage in international aircraft hijackings. Following the events of 9/11 and the founding of the TSA, the new administration had originally attempted to retain the privately contracted officers for use in nationwide airports while, at the same time, still requiring that all of the contracted security companies abide by a brand new uniform set of rules and policies implemented by the TSA (as a response to 9/11) including the requirement that passengers who set off the metal detector be given a full body pat down by a security officer, no larger than 3-ounces of liquid may be brought onto the plane, and only ticketed passengers with a valid-government issued form of ID be permitted past the security checkpoint. However, when difficulties arose with the management of implementing the new uniform set of policies between various private Security companies who had contracts with the airports, the TSA made the decision in late 2001 to let go all of the privately employed security officers from airports nationwide, and instead replace them with the administration's own federal team of security screeners. TSA Security Screeners first began appearing in airports in February 2002, and had completely replaced all of the privately employed screeners by the end of the year.  

The TSA was formed immediately in the events following in the aftermath of the [[September 11th, 2001 attacks]] in [[New York City]] and [[Washington D.C.]]. It was officially established upon the signing of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act by President [[George W. Bush]] on November 19, 2001. The TSA (at the time, a part of the U.S. [[Department of Transportation]]) was founded as a replacement for the Federal Security Division of the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA), which previously oversaw the contraction and execution of security screening procedures in airports nationwide prior to 9/11. Prior to the September 11th attacks, the FAA had supervised the contracting out by individual airports with various Security companies in order to utilize the company's Security Officers to screen passengers and their luggage at airport security checkpoints, a practice which had been in place since the 1970s when [[metal detector]]s were first introduced in airports following an upstage in international aircraft hijackings. Following the events of 9/11 and the founding of the TSA, the new administration had originally attempted to retain the privately contracted officers for use in nationwide airports while, at the same time, still requiring that all of the contracted security companies abide by a brand new uniform set of rules and policies implemented by the TSA (as a response to 9/11) including the requirement that passengers who set off the metal detector be given a full body pat down by a security officer, no larger than 3-ounces of liquid may be brought onto the plane, and only ticketed passengers with a valid-government issued form of ID be permitted past the security checkpoint. However, when difficulties arose with the management of implementing the new uniform set of policies between various private Security companies who had contracts with the airports, the TSA made the decision in late 2001 to let go all of the privately employed security officers from airports nationwide, and instead replace them with the administration's own federal team of security screeners. TSA Security Screeners first began appearing in airports in February 2002, and had completely replaced all of the privately employed screeners by the end of the year.