PARAS 0057 Airport Credentialing Office Planning and Design

This report is a consolidated source of strategies, methods, techniques, and practices for designing and constructing or retrofitting a credentialing office. It highlights practices that have been successful at airports around the country, and includes examples of unsuccessful practices to help airports avoid known challenges.

PARAS 0047  Practices and Considerations for Centralized Revocation Database Use

This guidance was developed to assist airports in making informed decisions regarding their policies and practices related to the Centralized Revocation Database for Individuals with Revoked Identification Media TSA-NA-21-01A. It includes strategies and considerations for the revocation of credentials, entering information into the CRD, and use of CRD findings. 

PARAS 0038  Airport Guidance for Identity Management Systems (IDMS)

This guidebook was created as a resource for airports to support informed decisions, from evaluating the need for an IDMS through planning, procurement, implementation, and operation. The guidance is based on information and experiences gathered from U.S. airport projects of various sizes, and provides best practices and lessons learned to enable the most efficient and effective delivery of IDMS.

PARAS 0036  Airport Credentialing Efficiency Toolkit

This toolkit was developed to provide airport credentialing offices with methods and techniques to consider for improving their efficiency. The guidance includes research findings and recommendations in thirteen credentialing challenge areas, as well as strategies, best practices, checklists, and associated considerations to assist airports in assessing their processes and implementing changes to improve the efficiency of their credentialing process.

The following software tools are available as part of the toolkit: Staff Forecasting and Self Assessment

PARAS 0035  Synthesis of Escort Privileges and Escorting Practices

49 CFR § 1542.211 gives airports the option to allow the escorting of individuals while they are in a TSA-restricted area. This document provides a synthesis of current practices to assist airports with decisions surrounding escort privileges and escorted-access options.

PARAS 0029  Criminal History Records Checks (CHRC) and Vetting Aviation Workers Guidebook

This guidebook provides step-by-step guidance and reference material for individuals who conduct and adjudicate criminal history records checks required under 49 CFR §§ 1542.209 and 1544.229. The document includes an overview of the current regulations, along with suggestions and guidance for those airports and air carriers that want to exceed the minimum federal requirements.

This revised version, published in August 2023, reflects changes to the CHRC process since the Rap Back mandate has been in effect.

PARAS 0020  Strategies for Effective Airport Identification Media Accountability and Control

This document assists airports of all sizes in enhancing controls and accountability of airport-issued ID media. The document covers security controls during badge issuance and renewal; audit strategies; suggestions to mitigate lost, stole, not returned, and unaccounted-for badges; strategies to enhance badge retrieval; and Trusted Agent considerations.