(WBAL) Khalid Turaani knows what it’s like to be on a secret government watchlist.
He learned about his status on it, not from an official letter or communication, but when TSA officers stopped him from flying one day in 2017.
“They told me that I am on the no-fly list and that I cannot board that flight,” Turaani recalled in an interview.
Results from a public records request he submitted that same year to the Department of Homeland Security confirmed — in writing — what he suspected: that his name had been assigned “no-fly” status.
With the help of an attorney at the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, Turaani successfully challenged the designation through the formal redress process.
