{"id":4960,"date":"2025-01-13T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2025-01-26T04:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:24:30","slug":"cbp-drops-questions-about-illegal-drug-use-from-pre-employment-polygraph-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/cbp-drops-questions-about-illegal-drug-use-from-pre-employment-polygraph-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"CBP Drops Questions About Illegal Drug Use From Pre-Employment Polygraph Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A moderator of the U.S. government-controlled<\/a> Reddit community r\/borderpatrolapplicant<\/a> writes that as of January 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will no longer ask applicants about drug use during pre-employment polygraph screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator Worried_Rooster1612<\/a>, whom AntiPolygraph.org has reason to believe is a federal polygraph operator, wrote<\/a>, among other things, on 2 January 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new change, as of January 2025, is that CBP will no longer ask applicants about drug use<\/strong> during the poly. Regardless, the entire background investigation is a whole person approach and you should still not leave out drug use on the eQIP. Disclose all drug use within the last 7 years on your eQIP that way you’re not worried about something that doesn’t even matter during your poly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Previously, applicants were questioned about illegal drug use during the pre-test phase<\/a> of the polygraph examination. While no question specifically about illegal drug use was asked during the “in-test” phase, when the subject is hooked up to the polygraph instrument and asked a series of questions, the topic of illegal drug use fell under the catch-all question, “Have you been involved in any serious criminal activity?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To our knowledge, CBP has not publicly announced why its polygraphers are no longer asking questions about illegal drug use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update (26 January 2025):<\/strong> Reddit user Worried_Rooster1612<\/a>, a federal polygraph operator who is cited in this post and who was a moderator of the government-controlled subreddit r\/borderpatrolapplicant<\/a>, has deleted his account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A moderator of the U.S. government-controlled Reddit community r\/borderpatrolapplicant writes that as of January 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will no longer ask applicants about drug use during pre-employment polygraph screening. Moderator Worried_Rooster1612, whom AntiPolygraph.org has reason to believe is a federal polygraph operator, wrote, among other things, on 2 January 2025: The new …<\/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":[89,127,88,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-4960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-border-patrol","8":"tag-cbp","9":"tag-customs-and-border-protection","10":"tag-polygraph-screening","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","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=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}