{"id":65,"date":"2006-08-30T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T08:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:02:15","slug":"american-polygraph-association-warns-against-reliance-on-polygraph-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/american-polygraph-association-warns-against-reliance-on-polygraph-results\/","title":{"rendered":"American Polygraph Association Warns Against Reliance on Polygraph Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In its new <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061002130651\/http:\/\/www.polygraph.org\/modelpolicy-preemployment.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model Policy for Law Enforcement Pre-Employment Screening Examinations<\/a>, in defiance of law enforcement agencies across the country that disqualify applicants based on nothing more than failure to &#8220;pass&#8221; a pre-employment polygraph examination, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Polygraph Association<\/a> (APA) holds, at para. 3.12.1.3, <strong>&#8220;The decision to hire, or not to hire an applicant, should never be based solely on the results of the polygraph examination&#8221;<\/strong> (emphasis added). For discussion of this major development, see, <a title=\"American Polygraph Association Model Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?board=Policy;action=display;num=1156917530\">American Polygraph Association Model Policy<\/a> on the AntiPolygraph.org message board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its new Model Policy for Law Enforcement Pre-Employment Screening Examinations, in defiance of law enforcement agencies across the country that disqualify applicants based on nothing more than failure to &#8220;pass&#8221; a pre-employment polygraph examination, the American Polygraph Association (APA) holds, at para. 3.12.1.3, &#8220;The decision to hire, or not to hire an applicant, should &#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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}