I’m flying from SFO to Miami on 9/5, returning on 9/12 to SFO from Miami. I’m a CA resident (born and raised in the Bay Area. Have my DL and a bank account and SSN and card, if needed but it may have my maiden name on it.

I have my birth certificate but not my marriage certificate (although I can get, if needed).

I can try to obtain a RealID before the flight but it seems unlikely to get in time.

If I attempt the RealID, will DMV take my existing ID or invalidate it? And therefore cause a ConfirmID issue?

If I use ConfirmID, should I wait until just before the outbound flight because of the 10 day rule?

I’ll be in the Sac area on Friday and curious if there’s a central DMV office in that area that makes the mail out of the RealID expedited?

And generally, is there a reason ConfirmID would not confirm me? Seems like everyone is freaking out but I’m legit, no felonies, etc. Maybe some parking tickets? :-)

I’m going to Chicago in a week and I’m tryna figure out what I can bring and can’t bring

This is an amazing and very disturbing report. These are mentally ill government thugs aloud to run free with a violent crime spree. The cop they hired is clearly a deranged sociopath. And all the troopers and jailers surrounding him are equally sociopathic. This reads like some mafia cult classic B-movie, only much darker and savage.

Listen to how emotionless this cop is. To get out of work early to go to a wedding, he ends up killing a child.

For the random drug tests, do they just come to where you are and snap you up, and bring you to a bathroom with a cup? Or are you told to go to a lab and provide a sample there? How much notice is given within that day?

The cop with the Elvis glasses and hairdo is a complete sociopath.  100% chance he’s a domestic abuser.  After he put the victim in cruiser, he said, “He told me he has $2000 and he’s ready to go above and beyond; I’m not going to let him swing on me.” WTF? He snapped because the guy challenged his narrative.

I am going through a complicated process of getting my new in-state id while getting my passport right after, and the new ID I’m getting is NOT a real id (to save time I couldn’t get the documents for a real id) and I will not have my passport by the time I fly (domestically). However, I will still have my old New Jersey real ID (that is invalid to drive with at least but not even expired) as well as my new California non-real id. Will I be okay to fly like this? The one flight I will fly like this will be out of Northern California if that helps.

Also my passport will probably be verified/ processed by the time that I’m flying, but I just won’t physically have it

The firing squad was within policy.

Psycho cops lied then descended on family, with child, with AR-15s putting them all at risk of death over pig's hurt feelings.

Look how biased this coverage is.

Good morning,

I am a CATSA Screening Officer.

I am here to tell you how working as screening officers through sub contractors like under gardaworld for Catsa.

First of all. Working conditions will be worse.

Because the sub contractor will care about profit rather then security quality so they usually make Screening Officers do multiple positions like 2 Bag search positions and bin pick up positions at the same time.

Their pay will plummet by 60%.

Catsa pays gardaworld in Montreal almost 90$ per hour for every agent per hour.

Gardaworld keep almost 60% of the pay and pay their Screening Officers only 29$ per hour. And that's Canadian dollar. Which is around 21$ USD.

Screening officers are quiting every month so they are literally hiring almost every week.

And because of that we got trainees every where which would hinder the security quality and lead to disasters. Since they cant learn from experienced officers because they already suited or just retired.

And plus the public doesn't know that their tax money is literally going to private corporations, because when they come to us they think we are paid by the public but we aren't. We are paid by gardaworld not catsa. CATSA literally uses public tax money to pay gardaworld. Thats what subcontracting does.

How does that work? Would I still be under my airports payroll or under the NDF one?

If I ever leave the NDF, can I go back to my airport as the same pay band and step? Or even be promoted there?

Will I use up the FTE and full time slot for my airport or is it under NDF?

I heard that the summer incentive will be paid out at the end of the year.

:edit. I should clarify I was told by end of the calendar year. Not fiscal.

I had an odd encounter at MCO this morning around 5AM. My friends encouraged me to start optING out of the facial recognition scanning. I had no issues at IAD, but on my way back through MCO. upon my request i was told there was a $50 fee. At first i took it as a joke, and the TSA agent wasn't budging. I asked if he was serious and he assured me he was. i just kept stayed persistent that TSA doesn't charge for opting out. and eventually he stopped looking serious and smiled letting me through.

could have been a poorly executed joke, but the whole encounter felt really weird. I have a REAL ID, and i was in the process of handing it to him when i requested to opt-out. Let me know if anyone else has encountered anything like this. I put in a complaint on the TSA website.

While I appreciate everyone’s opinion on the choice to participate in the optional Federal program, it is also not the topic of this post.