{"id":3101,"date":"2001-07-19T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2001-07-19T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:36:46","slug":"polygraph-dragnet-in-nueces-county-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/07\/19\/polygraph-dragnet-in-nueces-county-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Dragnet in Nueces County, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Corpus Christi Caller Times<\/em> reports in an article titled, “County clerk’s office employees asked to take polygraph tests.”<\/a> This short article is reproduced in full below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From staff reports<\/strong><\/p>

Employees at the Nueces County Clerk’s office<\/a> are being asked to submit to polygraph exams as investigators continue to probe the disappearance of $4,700, said County Clerk Ernest Briones.<\/p>

The money, collected from court fees and fines, was found to be missing last month when office staff reconciled bank statements.<\/p>

Sheriff Larry Olivarez said the investigation has been difficult because the money was missing for several days before his department was notified. “It’s a difficult case because of the circumstances leading up to the disappearance of the money,” he said.<\/p>

The office has 25 employees but only employees in the collections and treasury sections of the office were asked to take the polygraph tests, Briones said.<\/p>

“They do have a choice,” Briones said. “I think the law is such that they can refuse to take it.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nueces County Clerk Ernest M. Briones is giving employees a devil’s choice between agreeing to have their honesty assessed based on a pseudoscientific trial by ordeal or refusing and appearing to have something to hide. You can help set him straight on polygraph testing by sending a note through his office’s web-based feedback form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.co.nueces.tx.us\/countyclerk\/feedback.asp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

or by e-mail to countyclerk@nueces.esc2.net<\/a> or by phone at (361) 888-0580 or by fax at (361) 888-0329.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Corpus Christi Caller Times reports in an article titled, “County clerk’s office employees asked to take polygraph tests.” This short article is reproduced in full below: From staff reports Employees at the Nueces County Clerk’s office are being asked to submit to polygraph exams as investigators continue to probe the disappearance of $4,700, said …<\/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":[39,32,320],"class_list":{"0":"post-3101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dragnet","8":"tag-labor","9":"tag-texas","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","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=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}