Current Security Procedures?

[lifebybethany]

It's been a while since we've been, last time security would open and go through all pockets of all bags and we would need to get bags out of the stroller and such - is that still currently happening at disneyland?
Thanks!

 

[GoingSince1990]

Yes, I have to open every pocket of my backpack, take out anything bulky like sweatshirts, and they have a good rummage through.

 

[dina444444]

It's been a while since we've been, last time security would open and go through all pockets of all bags and we would need to get bags out of the stroller and such - is that still currently happening at disneyland?
Thanks!

Yup, no changes in that area. Hopefully they will switch to the WDW machines soon where you only have to remove certain items (umbrellas, glasses cases).

 

[whoever]

Sometimes they dug through everything, other times they just took a look inside the main compartment and waved me through. Behavioral profiling is a crucial aspect of efficient screening, but Disney doesn't practice this, and the security is quite simply theater only.

 

[Wesley815]

Also use clear plastic baggies inside your larger bags if you have things that you don't want touched. I'm not a germaphobe, but they will really dig through everything in a strangers bag and then go right to yours with the same gloves on.

I don't expect them to change between each guest, just funny how worried about sanitizing everyone is yet security is digging through who-knows-what inside those bags.

 

[PRomano]

I wonder if a clear backpack would make it easier

 

[BrianF]

What entrances did everyone commenting here use? There's several articles from late 2020 that Disneyland had upgraded to the same system (Evolv) that WDW had upgraded to. Of course at that time the only security in place would have been for DTD but it seems odd to have installed it only to remove it later when security efficiency became more important again. Also all the trip reports I've seen have talked about being lined up to Harbor before security opened then just a few minutes later they were waiting in the esplanade to go through the turnstiles.
Can folks confirm that none of the entrances are using the newer faster system?

 

[Nonsuch]

Can folks confirm that none of the entrances are using the newer faster system?

I don't know what "system" is being used, but can confirm security screening is much faster than before the closure.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

I was just at Disneyland a couple weeks ago, I used the Harbor side except for one time when I went to Trader Sam's and reentered by the Disneyland Hotel. The security process at Disneyland is bag check and then metal detector, it is not the new walk through type scanners that WDW uses now (I have been there on 5 different trips since its reopening in July of 2020). The security process at Disneyland didn't seem any different to me than when I went last in 2019.

 

[Jaydee51]

yep, same as before and strollers go through a side review. unload kids and bags.