# Designate checked-baggage screening space and keep accepted baggage controlled > Use 33 CFR 105.525 -- Maritime Security: Facilities to review this narrow operational decision without extending the source beyond its stated scope. - Canonical URL: https://update.dsesecurity.com/updates/designate-checked-baggage-screening-space-and-keep-accepted-baggage-controlled/ - Publisher: Detection Systems & Engineering (DSE Security) - Author: DSE Security Editorial Team - Published: 2026-08-27T12:11:01+00:00 - Modified: 2026-08-27T13:09:38+00:00 - Last reviewed by DSE: 2026-08-26 - Resource type: Playbook - DSE priority: Advisory - Topics: Access Control, Cybersecurity - Reading time: 3 minutes ## What you need to know Use 33 CFR 105.525 -- Maritime Security: Facilities to review this narrow operational decision without extending the source beyond its stated scope. ## Potentially affected Teams, systems, services, or facilities within the stated scope of 33 CFR 105.525 -- Maritime Security: Facilities ## DSE recommendation Compare the observed state with the cited official source, document applicability and exceptions, and test any approved change with rollback safeguards. ## Article Keep this document to one review outcome: Designate checked-baggage screening space and keep accepted baggage controlled. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting. ## Source fact: The official [33 CFR 105.525 — Maritime Security: Facilities](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-33/section-105.525) from U.S. Coast Guard via eCFR supports the following bounded statements: - Under 33 CFR 105, the rule requires that screening or security personnel constantly control the checked baggage, in a secure area, from the time it is accepted at the terminal until it is onboard the cruise ship. The research record locates this support at 33 CFR 105.525(c)(4) (eCFR anchor p-105.525(c)(4)). - Under 33 CFR 105, the rule requires that a cruise ship terminal that accepts baggage have at least one location designated for the screening of checked baggage. The research record locates this support at 33 CFR 105.525(c)(1) (eCFR anchor p-105.525(c)(1)). Do not import neighboring assumptions into the source record. The supported task is a scoped comparison involving credentials, readers, controllers, panels, door hardware, access decisions, monitoring, and life-safety interfaces and the conditions the source actually describes. ## What the source does not establish Applies only to facilities within 33 CFR part 105 and the cited section. Confirm Coast Guard jurisdiction, the approved Facility Security Plan, the current MARSEC level, and any approved alternatives; this is not legal advice or a universal facility-design standard. No current deployment state or change approval follows from the source alone. Validate identity sources, DNS where used, time, networks, power, fire systems, monitoring, and authorized operators, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults. ## Applicability questions - For source statement 1 at 33 CFR 105.525(c)(4) (eCFR anchor p-105.525(c)(4)), which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here? - For source statement 2 at 33 CFR 105.525(c)(1) (eCFR anchor p-105.525(c)(1)), which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here? - Which owner can attest to the recorded state of credentials, readers, controllers, panels, door hardware, access decisions, monitoring, and life-safety interfaces, including exceptions? - What baseline for identity sources, DNS where used, time, networks, power, fire systems, monitoring, and authorized operators must accompany the source-specific observation? - Which success, stop, and escalation criteria are written before testing begins? ## DSE recommendation: DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Use a two-person review for the source interpretation and the resulting operational decision. Record the source location, examined part of credentials, readers, controllers, panels, door hardware, access decisions, monitoring, and life-safety interfaces, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation. For an approved change, define prerequisites, a limited test path, success and stop conditions, monitoring, and rollback. Check identity sources, DNS where used, time, networks, power, fire systems, monitoring, and authorized operators in design order. Protect credentials, keys, recovery material, personal data, and sensitive topology in evidence. ## Verification and evidence Keep the source locations 33 CFR 105.525(c)(4) (eCFR anchor p-105.525(c)(4)); 33 CFR 105.525(c)(1) (eCFR anchor p-105.525(c)(1)) adjacent to the sanitized artifacts used for comparison. Prefer approved configuration exports, access-event tests, controller state, door inspections, alarm handling, and exception records, with enough identity and timing data for an independent recheck. Preserve both successful and failed observations, along with approval and rollback evidence. Avoid uncontrolled production experiments. Assign an expiry or event-driven recheck so the conclusion is not treated as permanent. ## Official references - [33 CFR 105.525 — Maritime Security: Facilities](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-33/section-105.525) — U.S. Coast Guard via eCFR ## Primary reference - Name: 33 CFR 105.525 -- Maritime Security: Facilities - Authority: www.ecfr.gov - URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-33/section-105.525 - Source publication date: Not stated by the source ## Citation and use Preferred citation: “Designate checked-baggage screening space and keep accepted baggage controlled,” DSE Security, https://update.dsesecurity.com/updates/designate-checked-baggage-screening-space-and-keep-accepted-baggage-controlled/ Publishing principles: https://update.dsesecurity.com/updates/dse-updates-editorial-methodology/ Usage and citation policy: https://update.dsesecurity.com/usage/ Copyright © 2026 Detection Systems & Engineering. All rights reserved.