News and notes from around the interweb: A class-action lawsuit seeks to stop TSA from unlawfully seizing flyers’ cash “TSA has secret policies that tell its screeners that they must seize travelers’ cash,” Dan Alban, the lawyer leading a nationwide class-action suit against the agency, tells me. Alban is with the Institute for Justice, which is fighting to stop airport checkpoints from being Constitution-free zones. ..TSA agents were sometimes permitted to keep a percentage of travelers’ cash they helped seize, but that brazen abuse reportedly no longer occurs. …TSA agents in Indiana are encouraged to “trust your instinct” when it comes to commandeering passengers’ money. North Dakota TSA agents are told, “Any large amount of currency will be reported, even if you believe it to be in the low thousands.” Airport cash seizures are turbocharged…
