{"id":2942,"date":"2001-03-29T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2001-03-29T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:16","slug":"bill-would-let-officers-refuse-lie-detector-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/29\/bill-would-let-officers-refuse-lie-detector-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bill Would Let Officers Refuse Lie Detector Tests&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>John Wilkerson of the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010413095046\/http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/lvrj_home\/2001\/Mar-29-Thu-2001\/news\/15752049.html\">writes<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.nv.us\/71st\/Reports\/history.cfm?ID=3986\">Nevada Assembly Bill 282<\/a> in this article published in the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/em> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>CARSON CITY &#8212; A bill allowing police officers to decline lie detector tests when they&#8217;re accused of something was challenged Wednesday by a legislator who said lawmakers would be fools to approve it.<\/p><p>Assemblyman Wendell Williams, D-Las Vegas, said during an Assembly Government Affairs meeting on Assembly Bill 283 [sic, correct 282] that he would only consider voting for the measure if it&#8217;s amended to give the same rights of refusal to all citizens.<\/p><p>Williams added that citizens might not be required to take polygraph tests when they file complaints against police &#8212; but if they refuse, their complaint carries little weight.<\/p><p>The bill, introduced by Assembly Government Affairs Chairman Doug Bache, D-Las Vegas, would let officers refuse lie detector tests and prohibit internal affairs investigators from noting their refusal in later court reports.<\/p><p>&#8220;Polygraphs are Ouija Boards,&#8221; said Gary Wolff of the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010302064758\/http:\/\/www.nhptrooper.com\/\">Nevada Highway Patrol Association<\/a>, arguing for the bill. &#8220;Criminals have passed these things, and innocent people have failed them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wilkerson of the Associated Press writes about Nevada Assembly Bill 282 in this article published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Excerpt: CARSON CITY &#8212; A bill allowing police officers to decline lie detector tests when they&#8217;re accused of something was challenged Wednesday by a legislator who said lawmakers would be fools to approve it. &#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":[296,317],"class_list":{"0":"post-2942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-legislation","8":"tag-nevada","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}