The Transportation Security Administration said Friday it has started the process of firing 25 of its agents and suspending 19 others for not following screening procedures. The 44 employees all worked in a checked-baggage screening room in Terminal B of Newark's Liberty International Airport, TSA spokesman David Castelveter told CNN in a written statement. In November and December of 2011, they were caught on surveillance cameras not following proper screening protocols, an agency internal investigation revealed. After passengers check their bags, TSA screeners are supposed to search the luggage with electronic scanners and open some bags by hand. In this case, the employees allegedly didn't follow procedures on about 250 bags during the two months, the agency said. All bags did receive some screening, however.
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The TSA says 44 employees at Newark's airport did not follow screening procedures
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It plans to fire 25 of them and suspend the other 19
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Procedures were not followed on about 250 bags over two months, the TSA says
In June, the same investigation prompted the agency to fire eight checked-baggage screeners at @placeholder for violating TSA procedures, including some of them for sleeping on the job.