After initial speculation, it was announced that the Transportation Security Administration will allow passengers to keep their shoes on as they go through security checkpoints.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the official announcement on Tuesday following rumors about the change on Monday. Noem said during a press conference, “It’s important that we find ways to keep people safe, but also streamline and make the process more enjoyable for every single person.”

She added, “TSA first implemented the no-shoes policy in 2006, almost 20 years ago, and in those 20 years, our security technology has changed dramatically. It has evolved.”

The no-shoes rule was implemented by TSA nationwide in 2006. The rule came several years after Richard Reid, a British man who would come to be known as the “shoe bomber,” attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoe in December 2001. Reid failed to detonate the explosives, and the plane landed safely in Boston after passengers helped subdue him. Reid pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and is serving a life sentence at a “Supermax” prison in Colorado.