Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Independent crime correspondent Jason Bennetto reports: Sex offenders living in the community are to take compulsory lie-detector tests after a study found 85 per cent were reoffending or breaching parole, or had failed polygraph tests. The Home Office intends to introduce a law to force those offenders released from prison under community and probation orders …
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 …
Missy Stoddard reports for the Tampa Tribune in an article titled, “Judge Keeps Woman’s Probation.” This short article is cited here in full: DADE CITY – A judge Monday denied a request to terminate the probation of a former Zephyrhills woman who had sex with two neighborhood teens. Zephyrhills police arrested Lynne Cunneen, 37, in …
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 …
Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal Intelligencer reports. Excerpt: Requiring sex offenders to submit to random lie-detector tests during the probationary period after release from prison is not unconstitutional, but forbidding them from owning a computer may be going too far, a federal appeals court has ruled. In a pair of opinions handed down this …
Denver Post staff writer Ryan Morgan reports. Excerpt: Thursday, December 26, 2002 – Ben Aragon swears he’s telling the truth. The polygraph machine he’s hooked up to isn’t so sure. So Aragon, who has been taking polygraph exams since he was put on probation for sexually assaulting his girlfriend two years ago, is fighting the …
David Derbyshire and Roger Highfield report for the Daily Telegraph Excerpt: A scientist yesterday questioned a proposal to use lie-detector tests on convicted paedophiles to see if they would reoffend. Initial trials by two American polygraph examiners in the West Midlands, Northumberland and Surrey found that a third of those taking the tests lied when …
The Guardian reports. Excerpt: Sex offenders may soon be asked to take lie detector tests to monitor their behaviour, the national probation service said today. The machines, which monitor physical responses such as heart rate, could be used regularly if further research proved their reliability, the service said. Polygraph tests were tested by the national …
Tanya Giles reports in this article published by the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun. Excerpt: SEX offenders would be forced to take regular lie detector tests after their release from prison under a plan to stop them re-offending. Police also would be given the power to use any information obtained from the hi-tech tests to launch …