# Secure Flight **Domain:** Austin Research / Surveillance **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied essay and the specifically identified records; verification scope is recorded in [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|the evidence ledger]]. **Secure Flight** is the TSA passenger-screening program situated at the transportation entrance to the Austin surveillance essay. The source follows a 2014 whistleblower disclosure about a risk-based rule and subsequent disputes about traveler classification and additional surveillance. Its role in the field is prior classification: reservation and identity information can be processed before the traveler reaches the destination city. That makes transportation an upstream information layer, with consequences that may be invisible to the passenger. The essay’s specific 2014 disclosure and withheld review details remain leads for retrieval of the OSC referral and DHS OIG record. The separately documented 2025 [[wiki/Quiet Skies|Quiet Skies hearing]] supplies congressional context, rather than verification of every earlier Secure Flight rule. Screening, watchlist matching, and physical surveillance are related but distinct operations. A traveler’s entry into a screening system does not itself establish which additional operation occurred; rule histories, match resolution, and case records provide those distinctions. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Quiet Skies|Quiet Skies]] · [[wiki/Watchlist Encounter Process|Watchlist Encounter Process]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] · [[wiki/Computational Addressability|Computational Addressability]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [Senate HSGAC — Quiet Skies hearing, September 30, 2025](https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/examining-the-weaponization-of-the-quiet-skies-program/) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger]]