Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Intercept investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw reports on lobbying efforts by Converus Inc., which is attempting to market its EyeDetect “lie detector” to the federal government. Converus claims that EyeDetect is 88 to 90 percent accurate, a claim that is not supported by any independent peer-reviewed research. Excerpt: Read the rest of the story here. Data …
On Thursday, 20 October 2022, AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke spoke with David C. Graham, the 2022 Libertarian Party candidate for the United States Senate from the state of Kansas. Topics addressed include the 2015 trial of the late Douglas Gene Williams, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for teaching undercover federal agents how …
On 19 January 2018, in a case that garnered international attention, Benjamin Lawrence Petty of Spencer, Oklahoma pleaded guilty to raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a church-run summer camp, and in accordance with a negotiated plea agreement was sentenced to 15 years on probation. Petty is legally …
On Thursday, 1 September 2022, the Polk County, Florida Sheriff’s Office arrested Jason Matthew DiPrima, 49, of Kingston, Georgia in a sting operation for soliciting a prostitute. DiPrima is a deputy chief of the Cartersville, Georgia Police Department and had been in Florida to attend the 56th annual seminar of the American Polygraph Association, which …
The Lafayette Instrument Company of Lafayette, Indiana, the U.S. government’s main supplier of polygraph instruments, has acquired Canadian polygraph manufacturer Limestone Technologies of Kingston, Ontario. Lafayette announced the acquisition in a 22 August 2022 post on its website: Lafayette Instrument Co. is pleased to announce its acquisition of Limestone Technologies on August 12, 2022. Both …
On Wednesday, 27 July 2022, U.S. senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced Senate Bill 4634, “A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to administer polygraph examinations to certain foreign nationals with access to nonpublic areas or information of the National Laboratories.” The full text of the bill is available here (PDF). …
On 14 June 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice in a press release announced that Luke Michael Churchill of Wilmington, North Carolina, had been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of production of child pornography. The press release notes that Churchill “photographed his sexual abuse of a four-year …
According to an official news release, Arizona governor Doug Ducey on 25 April 2022 signed into law H.B 2159, a bill introduced by Representative John Kavanagh that withdraws authorization for the use of polygraphs in law enforcement internal investigations. Kavanagh, a Republican representing Arizona’s 23rd district, previously worked as a police officer with the Port …
On 25 April 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel of Chili, New York went missing while on holiday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The investigation of the case dragged on for years and garnered nationwide attention. In 2016, Tequan L. Brown, a jailhouse informant, implicated Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor in Brittanee Drexel’s disappearance, claiming that Drexel “was gang …
Craig Greiwe, currently favored to lose the 7 June 2022 Los Angeles mayoral primary election by a wide margin, has submitted to a polygraph “test” and is challenging other candidates to also do so, as Travis Schlepp reports for KTLA. Excerpt: It’s no secret that many voters are skeptical about trusting the word of their …