{"id":3837,"date":"2002-12-17T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2021-03-06T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T10:18:54","slug":"polygraph-testing-ordered-for-cameron-county-texas-jail-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/polygraph-testing-ordered-for-cameron-county-texas-jail-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph “Testing” Ordered for Cameron County, Texas Jail Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Muir and Emma Perez-Trevi\u00f1o report for the Brownsville, Texas Herald<\/em> in an article titled, “Sheriff holds off on staff changes.”<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Administrative debates temporarily staved off Sheriff Conrado Cantu’s plan to restructure a troubled county jail staff Monday, but Cameron County’s top lawman said his department will continue considering options this week as his staff undergoes polygraph examinations.<\/p>

“We are still debating,” Cantu said in a telephone interview Monday.<\/p>

“Administration got together this morning and we have several options we are going to look for. We have not yet gotten to an agreement. I can’t comment any further.”<\/p>

Cantu told The Herald Friday that he would hold a news conference Monday to discuss a possible re-staffing of county jail operations, after drugs again were found inside the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito — the latest incident in a string at the maximum-security facility, including investigations into sexual activity between guards and inmates, missing inmate funds and a jailer arrested in October on drug charges.<\/p>

County Judge Gilberto Hinojosa could not be reached Monday to discuss Cantu’s proposed changes but is expected to discuss a possible drug screening policy for jail staff at today’s Commissioners Court meeting.<\/p>

The District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Department are conducting parallel investigations into the sexual allegations that include polygraph exams for jail employees.<\/p>

Former Mercedes Police Chief Jose H. Flores III is conducting the tests for the sheriff. Flores currently is employed by Cameron County as a deputy constable in Precinct 7 and is a licensed polygraph examiner.<\/p>

“I’ve been conducting the polygraph examinations for free, at no cost to the county because I am a county employee trying to help them out,” he said, noting that he conducts the examinations after the regular workday.<\/p>

The attorney representing a former sheriff’s lieutenant who claims she was fired for blowing the whistle on the alleged activity objects to Flores’ involvement. “It is well known that he is a crony of the sheriff,” Richard Nu\u00f1ez said Monday, the same day he filed a wrongful termination suit against the sheriff and Cameron County on behalf of ex-Lt. Hilda Trevi\u00f1o.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Muir and Emma Perez-Trevi\u00f1o report for the Brownsville, Texas Herald in an article titled, “Sheriff holds off on staff changes.” Excerpt: Administrative debates temporarily staved off Sheriff Conrado Cantu’s plan to restructure a troubled county jail staff Monday, but Cameron County’s top lawman said his department will continue considering options this week as his …<\/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":[454,32,320],"class_list":{"0":"post-3837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-corrections","8":"tag-labor","9":"tag-texas","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","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=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}