DENVER—The Denver airport’s director of government affairs has had her security privileges suspended for 180 days after trying to bypass a security checkpoint to board a flight.
Airport employees get badges they can use to gain access beyond security checkpoints, strictly for business purposes. Denver International Airport spokesman Jeff Green says mayoral appointee Heather Barry tried to use her badge Feb. 3 to bypass a checkpoint to board a plane with her daughter.
Green says U.S. Transportation Security Administration officials stopped Barry before she boarded the flight and sent her and her daughter through the security checkpoint, then confiscated her badge.
Barry called her use of the badge a mistake.
Green says that over the past three years, 42 employees have violated airport safety protocols of varying degrees.
