Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
At a meeting of the San Diego City Council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee held on 16 June 2021, Captain Rudy Tai of the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) mentioned that the pre-employment polygraph screening process now includes questioning about hate crimes and racial bias. As part of a “Recruitment and Retention Update” Tai …
San Diego television station KGTV reports on the case of Ibrahim Nasser in a Yahoo! news story titled “Local Man Feels Threatened by FBI.” This short article is cited here in full: Lebanon-born U.S. citizen Ibrahim Nasser spent four hours talking with the FBI Monday. Nasser was first introduced to 10News viewers Sunday, when he …
North County Times staff writer Scott Marshall reports in a lengthy article on the use of polygraph “testing” to supervise sex offenders on probation in San Diego County, California. Be sure to see the full article. Excerpt: VISTA —- San Diego County probation officers are using lie-detector tests to help them supervise the roughly 600 …