The Rutherford Institute, a local nonprofit civil liberties organization, has taken up a case that has recently made national headlines.
Michael Roberts, a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines, refused a full-body scan or a pat down while going through airport security and says it is a violation of a citizen’s Fourth Amendment right.
"Forcing Americans to undergo a virtual strip search as a matter of course in reporting to work or boarding an airplane when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing is a grotesque violation of our civil liberties," said Rutherford President John Whitehead in a news release.
On CNN’s American Morning, Roberts said that he was “trying to avoid this assault on my person, and I’m not willing to have images of my nude body produced for some stranger in another room to look at either."
