{"id":1193,"date":"2014-05-12T00:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T05:49:52","slug":"dea-to-pay-500000-to-settle-polygraph-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/dea-to-pay-500000-to-settle-polygraph-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA to Pay $500,000 to Settle Polygraph Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dea-seal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-715\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dea-seal-300x300.png\" alt=\"dea-seal\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dea-seal-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dea-seal-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dea-seal.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>McClatchy investigative reporter Marisa Taylor <a title=\"DEA settles suit alleging government lie-detector abuses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/05\/07\/226776\/dea-settles-suit-alleging-government.html\">reports<\/a> that the Drug Enforcement Agency has agreed to pay 14 contract translators $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought under the 1988 <a title=\"Employee Polygraph Protection Act\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/othergov\/polygraph\/eppa.html\">Employee Polygraph Protection Act<\/a> (EPPA).<\/p>\n<p>While the EPPA includes exemptions that allow individuals under contract to the FBI,\u00a0NSA, DIA, and\u00a0CIA, among others, to be polygraphed, no such exemption exists for DEA contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The translators also filed suit against their direct employer, Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Inc., and that legal action remains ongoing with respect to nine plaintiffs. An April 2012\u00a0statement of claim in that litigation may be downloaded\u00a0<a title=\"Statement of Claim\" href=\"http:\/\/ia600802.us.archive.org\/12\/items\/gov.uscourts.casd.377137\/gov.uscourts.casd.377137.14.0.pdf\">here<\/a>. One translator&#8217;s polygrapher asked her &#8220;if she had engaged in sexual activity with animals&#8221; and another&#8217;s polygraph examination &#8220;included a question regarding his sexual conduct and whether he cheated on his partner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy investigative reporter Marisa Taylor reports that the Drug Enforcement Agency has agreed to pay 14 contract translators $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought under the 1988 Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA). While the EPPA includes exemptions that allow individuals under contract to the FBI,\u00a0NSA, DIA, and\u00a0CIA, among others, to be polygraphed, no such exemption &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[154,155,71,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-1193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dea","8":"tag-drug-enforcement-agency","9":"tag-employee-polygraph-protection-act","10":"tag-eppa","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}