The TSA has started the process to fire the TSA officer, who found a vibrator in a female passenger’s checked bag on Saturday 22^nd, and left her note saying, “Get Your Freak On, Girl.”

Jill Filipovic, an editor at Feministe.com, was passing through the airport on her way to a conference in Ireland. After making it through security, she noticed the note, written on a paper with TSA identification on it, in her bag.

She then Tweeted about the note Monday, initiating a TSA investigation into the incident. According to New York Daily News, the agency got to the bottom of it, but has refused to release information regarding the employee.

According to the paper, the agency “has initiated action to remove the individual from federal service,” a TSA spokesperson said in a statement emailed to the News.

“Like all federal employees, this individual is entitled to due process and protected by the Privacy Act. During the removal action process, the employee will not perform any screening duties.”

Jill Filipovic has since blogged about how shocked she was over the amount of attention the incident has gotten. She said she didn’t want the employee to get the boot.

She said she went public with the letter because she wanted to bring attention to the issue of privacy concerns in the United States today.

“The note was inappropriate; the agent in question acted unprofessionally when s/he put it in my bag; there should be consequences and I’m glad the TSA takes these things seriously,” she wrote.

“But I get no satisfaction in hearing that someone may be in danger of losing their job over this. I would much prefer a look at why ‘security’ has been used to justify so many intrusions on our civil liberties, rather than fire a person who made a mistake.”

The incident came days after two former TSA screeners pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal $40,000 from a bag that had been checked onto an American Airlines flight at Kennedy Airport