The Drug Enforcement Administration is no longer allowed to randomly search travelers at airports and other transit hubs after a scathing report from the Justice Department found “serious concerns” with the practice.
DEA agents failed to properly document searches, may have illegally targeted minorities and, in at least one case, paid an airline employee tens of thousands of dollars over several years to suggest targets for searches, according to the report released Thursday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
The deputy attorney general ordered the DEA to suspend the random searches Nov. 12 after seeing a draft of the memo.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is barred from conducting random searches of travelers’ belongings at airports and other transit hubs after an independent investigation found “serious concerns” with the practice. (Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)
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