{"id":4759,"date":"2022-09-03T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:28:44","slug":"lafayette-instrument-co-acquires-limestone-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/03\/lafayette-instrument-co-acquires-limestone-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette Instrument Co. Acquires Limestone Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lafayetteinstrument.com\/\">Lafayette Instrument Company<\/a> of Lafayette, Indiana, the U.S. government&#8217;s main supplier of polygraph instruments, has acquired Canadian polygraph manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonetech.com\/\">Limestone Technologies<\/a> of Kingston, Ontario. Lafayette announced the acquisition in a 22 August 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220825151647\/https:\/\/lafayetteinstrument.com\/pages\/company-news\/\">post<\/a> on its website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lafayette Instrument Co. is pleased to announce its acquisition of Limestone Technologies on August 12, 2022.<\/p><p>Both Lafayette Instrument and Limestone Technologies have decades of experience serving the credibility assessment community and expect a seamless integration.<\/p><p>Jennifer Rider, President of Lafayette Instrument Company said, &#8220;We are very pleased to bring these two companies together to achieve our collective potential and maximum effectiveness and efficiency for the benefit of our customers.&#8221;<\/p><p>As a result of this acquisition, Lafayette Instrument expands its credibility assessment staff, product line, and market reach to continue providing the best solutions and service available in the industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, Limestone Technologies acquired the <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonetech.com\/backster-lie-detection\/\">Backster School of Lie Detection<\/a>, a polygraph school founded by the late <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1013288912\">Grover Cleveland &#8220;Cleve&#8221; Backster<\/a> (1924-2013) in 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, Lafayette <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170326141337\/https:\/\/lafayettepolygraph.com\/downloads\/peak-release.pdf\">announced its launch<\/a> of a polygraph school in Florida called the <a href=\"https:\/\/peakcatc.com\/\">Peak Credibility Assessment Training Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lafayette Instrument Company of Lafayette, Indiana, the U.S. government&#8217;s main supplier of polygraph instruments, has acquired Canadian polygraph manufacturer Limestone Technologies of Kingston, Ontario. Lafayette announced the acquisition in a 22 August 2022 post on its website: Lafayette Instrument Co. is pleased to announce its acquisition of Limestone Technologies on August 12, 2022. Both &#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":[185,173],"class_list":{"0":"post-4759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-lafayette-instrument-company","8":"tag-limestone-technologies","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","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=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}