A passenger used a boarding pass found in the trash. CLEAR escorted them through airport security.
is under increasing scrutiny from lawmakers following two previously unreported security incidents — including one where someone was able to go through security using a boarding pass they’d fished out of the trash.
CLEAR spokesperson Annabel Walsh said for the company “security is job one and we have a zero tolerance policy.” Still, Thompson and Senate appropriators have called for TSA to begin requiring all CLEAR passengers to present their IDs to a TSA agent. That could impact CLEAR’s business of charging $189 a year so pre-screened passengers can use an eye or fingerprint scan, or both, before being escorted to the front of the security line by a CLEAR employeeIn both of the newly reported cases, the passengers were able to go through the security checkpoint “because of CLEAR’s lack of oversight,” the aide said.
The passenger, according to Crystal Nosal, a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority spokesperson, was charged with weapons possession and identity theft. “CLEAR will continue to partner with the DHS and TSA to implement the new industrywide digital identity standards that we have been working on together since 2020,” Walsh said.
“TSA has established a timeline with milestones for this to occur,” Langston said, without providing a specific deadline. “Currently, all passengers except [Registered Traveler] participants are required to present identification at the CAT unit, where it is available.” CLEAR is the only company that operates under the registered traveler program.
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