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CAPPS II Hearing Raises Liability Concerns

Congresswomen Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-D), asked the Transportation Security Administration�s (TSA) if it was prepared to address CAPPS II errors in passenger identification that result in economic loss. In that same hearing the Government Accounting office recommended that TSA should develop realistic budgetary impact analysis and a mechanism for redress to parties wrongfully delayed or detained by the passenger screening system known as CAPPS II.

Norton raises CAPPS II liability fears, Federal Computer Week, March 17, 2004