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What are the benefits provided by Secure Flight?

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What are the benefits provided by Secure Flight?

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• Decreases the chance for compromised watch list data by limiting its distribution • Provides earlier identification of potential matches, allowing for expedited notification of law enforcement and threat management • Provides a fair, equitable, and consistent matching process across all airlines • Reduces instances of misidentified individuals • Offers consistent application of an integrated redress process for misidentified individuals via the Department of Homeland Security’s Travel Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP) What laws mandate Secure Flight? The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) take over watch list matching from the airlines. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004 codified this recommendation and requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and TSA to assume from airlines the function of conducting pre-flight comparisons of airline passenger information to federal government watch li