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Article: Airport security biased, Sikhs say: Group protests new policy, contends men in turbans unfairly targeted for searches.
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2007
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Byline: Rebecca Rosen Lum
Aug. 28--A new Homeland Security Department policy singles out Sikh men for rigorous airport security searches at the discretion of screeners, a national civil rights organization says.
The United Sikh Coalition has written to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff to protest the policy, implemented Aug. 4, which it says amounts to racial profiling. Nearly 2,000 have signed petitions.
Previously, travelers wearing turbans were searched only if they failed to clear metal detectors or other preliminary checks. The new rules, implemented Aug. 4, allow pat-downs of religious headgear at the screener's discretion.
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