{"id":3984,"date":"2003-07-08T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2021-03-10T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:23:01","slug":"investigation-continues-into-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/08\/investigation-continues-into-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Investigation Continues into Leak&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Birmingham News<\/em> staff writer Anita Debro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birminghamnews\/index.ssf?\/xml\/story.ssf\/html_standard.xsl?\/base\/news\/1057655826166220.xml\">reports<\/a> on the scandal in the Irondale, Alabama city government. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Irondale officials remained tight-lipped Monday about an investigation into the police department and who may have leaked information about a drug case involving a city councilman&#8217;s son.<\/p><p>Irondale&#8217;s Public Safety Committee, charged with handling the internal investigation into who leaked information about the drug investigation, has yet to interview any employees or ask any to take a polygraph test as Irondale Mayor Allen Ramsey had suggested.<\/p><p>Ramsey requested last week that City Hall employees be interviewed and given a polygraph test if necessary to find out who gave a police report about the drug investigation to radio talk show hosts Russ and Dee Fine.<\/p><p>City Attorney Greg Morris said no polygraph tests are scheduled for the near future. He denied published reports that the committee has backed off giving the lie detector tests altogether.<\/p><p>&#8220;We may have to (ask for a polygraph), but we may not have to,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are just in the fact-finding stage.&#8221;<\/p><p>Before Ramsey turned the investigation over to the committee, several police officers had already submitted to the polygraph tests, including acting Police Chief Norman Stapp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham News staff writer Anita Debro reports on the scandal in the Irondale, Alabama city government. Excerpt: Irondale officials remained tight-lipped Monday about an investigation into the police department and who may have leaked information about a drug case involving a city councilman&#8217;s son. Irondale&#8217;s Public Safety Committee, charged with handling the internal investigation into &#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":[384,39,479,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-3984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-alabama","8":"tag-dragnet","9":"tag-irondale","10":"tag-leaks","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}