Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Penny Brown Roberts reports for the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Advocate in an article titled, ‘Shocking’ discrimination suit kept alive.” Excerpt: A federal judge has refused to dismiss a former detective’s claims that he endured racial harassment and discrimination in the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office for years, and was wrongly fired for assisting a 2001 Louisiana …
Charles P. Pierce writes on pre-employment polygraph screening in the cover story of the 3 August 2003 edition of the Boston Globe Magazine. Excerpt: WAS HE SWEATING? Of course he was sweating. But he didn’t want to be sweating, and he didn’t want his heart to race this way, because he knew what that did …
Optics.org reports on a recent patent application in its “Patent Highlights” feature: Title: Non-invasive polygraph technology based on optical analysisApplicant: Defense Group, USInternational application number: WO 03/057003Infrared laser pulses could soon be used to determine whether someone is telling the truth or is under stress. In patent application WO 03/057003, US firm Defense Group describes …
The following was posted to the SW Virginia law blog : Polygraph evidence inadmissible in probation hearing In White v. Com., the Virginia Court of Appeals in an opinion by Judge Benton joined by Judge Clements and Senior Judge Hodges held that evidence that a probationer failed a polygraph test is inadmissible in a hearing …
Jaspreet Kindra reports for the Mail and Guardian. Excerpt: The Inkatha Freedom Party apparently wants to subject its national council members to a lie detector test to establish whether they have leaked confidential information to the media and other organisations. The IFP’s intentions were disclosed at its council meeting during the party’s national conference in …
Mike Levsen writes for the Aberdeen, South Dakota American News. Excerpt: I’m going on record right now. I will not submit voluntarily to a polygraph test at any time, for any reason. Even if I’m innocent – especially if I’m innocent. The use of the lie-detector test has not gone the way of reading bumps …
Washington Times staff writer Rowan Scarborough reports. Excerpt: Captured Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq are proving adept at beating lie-detector tests, frustrating attempts to find banned weapons and to learn what happened to Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. U.S. officials and military officers say trained interrogators in Baghdad have caught Iraqi Ba’ath Party loyalists lying …
Washington Times staff writer Rowan Scarborough reports in a an article titled “Navy pilot’s fate now looks grim”. Excerpt: A secret Pentagon report states that once-promising leads in the hunt for Capt. Michael Scott Speicher in Iraq have turned up no evidence of his whereabouts, contradicting public official comments that the search was producing positive …
Birmingham Post-Herald reporter Taylor Bright covers the developing scandal in Irondale, Alabama, whose mayor had sought polygraph testing at city hall in an attempt to find a whistleblower. Excerpt: Two Irondale City Council members want some answers — and perhaps an investigation into their own Police Department. Councilman Simpson Berry said he has received many …
The Virginian-Pilot reports that a settlement has been reached in an $18 million Employee Polygraph Protection Act lawsuit. Excerpt: NORFOLK — A lawsuit filed by a former Smithfield Packing Co. saleswoman against the meatpacker has been settled on the eve of trial this week. The terms were not disclosed. The former employee, Julie M. Bannister, …