{"id":3420,"date":"2002-02-20T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2002-02-20T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:27","slug":"police-look-for-liars-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/police-look-for-liars-at-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"“Police Look for Liars at City Hall”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Annette Phillips reports<\/a> for the Kingston Whig-Standard<\/em> of Kingston, Ontario, Canada regarding a polygraph dragnet at City Hall. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local News – Councillor Don Roger<\/a>s<\/a> says he will not take a lie-detector test to help police trace the leak of a confidential council document.<\/p>

“I find the idea of being subjected to a lie-detector test truly offensive,” Rogers said yesterday.<\/p>

“I have co-operated with the police investigation, but I will absolutely not, under any circumstances, in any investigation, take a lie-detector test.”<\/p>

The Ontario Provincial Police Anti-Rackets squad is continuing its investigation into how documents from an Oct. 9 in-camera council meeting were leaked to The Whig-Standard.<\/p>

Council authorized Mayor Isabel Turner<\/a> to launch a probe into the leak. The mayor handed the investigation over to police, who are questioning councillors and asking for fingerprints and lie-detector tests.<\/p>

Rogers said he was asked to attend an interview with OPP officers last week, at which time he was asked to submit to the polygraph machine.<\/p>

He took a lawyer to the meeting, found out that he was not legally required to take the lie-detector test, and refused to do so.<\/p>

He acknowledges that some might perceive his actions as those of a guilty man.<\/p>

“I would certainly hope the public would perceive me as a councillor who is not going to permit his civil liberties to be eroded,” Rogers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annette Phillips reports for the Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada regarding a polygraph dragnet at City Hall. Excerpt: Local News – Councillor Don Rogers says he will not take a lie-detector test to help police trace the leak of a confidential council document. “I find the idea of being subjected to a lie-detector test …<\/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":[111,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-3420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-canada","8":"tag-dragnet","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","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=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}