{"id":3432,"date":"2002-03-06T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:18:49","slug":"polygraph-dragnet-at-jefferson-county-colorado-sheriffs-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/06\/polygraph-dragnet-at-jefferson-county-colorado-sheriffs-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Dragnet at Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff&#8217;s Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Rocky Mountain News<\/em> staff writers Jeff Kass, Kevin Vaughan and Lynn Bartels report in an article titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/columbine\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_106_1016608,00.html\">&#8220;Jeffco vows to find who leaked photos.&#8221;<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Employees in the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020130004129\/http:\/\/ww2.co.jefferson.co.us\/ext\/dpt\/officials\/sheriff\/index.htm\">Jefferson County sheriff&#8217;s department<\/a> will be given lie detector tests in the coming days as officials try to determine how more than 60 secret Columbine High School crime scene photos were leaked.<\/p><p>Sheriff John Stone and Undersheriff John Dunaway will be at the head of the line.<\/p><p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s necessary to use the polygraph to resolve this matter, I&#8217;ll take the first one, and the sheriff certainly will do so as well,&#8221; Dunaway said.<\/p><p>He said neither he nor Stone, the only two officials with the authority to release any of the 10,000 or so crime scene photos, had done so.<\/p><p>&#8220;I would resign in a heartbeat over an issue like that,&#8221; Dunaway said of allegations the photos were intentionally leaked.<\/p><p>Two years ago, Stone and Dunaway incurred the wrath of Columbine families when they allowed a Time magazine reporter to watch videos taped by Klebold and Harris after refusing to let the families see them.<\/p><p>At least two internal affairs investigators have been assigned to the case, launched Tuesday after a Rocky Mountain News report. Dunaway said two photos faxed to him by the News appear to be authentic.<\/p><p>Investigators will compile a list of dozens &#8220;who may be asked to cooperate with this investigation,&#8221; spokeswoman Jacki Tallman said. She said it&#8217;s unclear how many may submit to a polygraph test.<\/p><p>&#8220;We aren&#8217;t lining people up like cattle,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Mountain News staff writers Jeff Kass, Kevin Vaughan and Lynn Bartels report in an article titled, &#8220;Jeffco vows to find who leaked photos.&#8221; Excerpt: Employees in the Jefferson County sheriff&#8217;s department will be given lie detector tests in the coming days as officials try to determine how more than 60 secret Columbine High School &#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":[375,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-3432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-colorado","8":"tag-dragnet","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}