Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Zvi Zrahiya reports for Ha’aretz. This short article is cited here in full: The Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee on Wednesday approved a bill preventing employers from requesting or demanding that a job candidate undergo a lie detector test. The bill, submitted by MK Yehiel Hazan (Likud), sets special circumstances under which an employer would …
SWNEBR.net reports. Excerpt: KEARNEY, NE–In Kearney, Nebraska today Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson announced that the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) will receive one million federal research dollars to study two important issues. The first project is to improve the reliability of polygraph technology in an effort to make it more useful in law enforcement …
Jamie Satterfield reports for the Knoxville, Tennessee News-Sentinel: If a polygraph test can help land a person in jail, a Knoxville lawyer argues, why can it not be used to free the accused? Knoxville attorney Gregory P. Isaacs wants to use the results of a polygraph examination to try to prove to a jury that …
Eric Lichtblau reports for the New York Times: WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 – Justice Department investigators have sought to have senior federal prosecutors take polygraph examinations in an effort to determine who leaked the name of a confidential informant in a Detroit terrorism case that has become a major embarrassment for the department, officials said Friday. …
The Sydney Morning Herald has published the following Australian Associated Press story: Prime Minister John Howard turned down a lie detector test to determine if he was telling the truth over the children overboard affair. But the man who claims he told Mr Howard there were doubts about allegations of refugees throwing children overboard from …
Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Facing the prospect of a federal corruption indictment, former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell took the offensive Friday with the announcement he had passed a polygraph examination. The examination, which cost Campbell $600, was administered Friday by a former director of the FBI’s polygraph unit who is now a …
Syndicated columnist Steve Chapman comments in an article published by the Prescott, Arizona Daily Courier: In May 1978, police arrested four Chicago-area men on charges of murdering a suburban man and raping and murdering his fiancée. All of the suspects said they were innocent, but no real doubt existed about their guilt: Three of them, …
North County Times staff writer Tim Mayer reports in an article titled, “Fogelstrom said investigators deceived them” that the Riverside County (California) Sheriff’s Department conducted a coercive polygraph examination of a minor under false pretenses. Excerpt: CARLSBAD —- The father of the teenage companion of 17-year-old Eric Sears —- who was found dead in Joshua …
The BBC reports: Convicted paedophiles could be forced to take lie detector tests to ensure they stay away from children, under plans by Home Secretary David Blunkett. He wants compulsory testing in Sussex, Northumberland and the West Midlands – currently piloting voluntary tests. Probation officers would ask offenders whether they had had contact with children …
Home affairs editor Alan Travis reports for the Guardian. Home Office plans to introduce compulsory lie detector tests to ensure that convicted paedophiles do not offend again are worrying cabinet members. The home secretary, David Blunkett, has admitted to his cabinet colleagues that the plans “are not without controversy” and is seeking legal clearance from …