George,

Have you received any response from LAPD or the Sheriffs Dept. regarding the CPRA requests?

I know the LASD is busy doing "Damage Control" from the escape!!!

Fred F.

On 6 July 2001, LASD sent a reply to my CPRA request, which I received today (25 July). My request to LASD was for:
Quote:


LASD provided the following documents:

• LASD's Polygraph Examination Waiver/Pre-Offer form (which has now been posted to AntiPolygraph.org, click the link to read it);
• Bulletin No. 770-1629 dated September 1, 2000, which lists requirements for the position of Deputy Sheriff Trainee, with the following passage highlighted: "A thorough background investigation (including fingerprint search and polygraph examination) will be required of candidates.");
• a copy of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (with the following passage highlighted: "This chapter shall not apply to the United States Government, any State or local government, or any political subdivision of a State or local government.");
• Section 432.2 of the California Labor Code (with the following passage highlighted: "The prohibition of this section does not apply to the federal government or any agency thereof or the state government or any agency or local subdivision thereof, including, but not limited to, counties, cities and counties, cities, districts, authorities and agencies.").

LASD provided no rule or guideline of its own regulating its administration of employment-related polygraph examinations. Assuming that LASD did not withhold any responsive documents, it would appear that LASD polygraphers conduct employment-related polygraph interrogations unburdened by any regulatory constraints whatsoever.

compare to the State of Alaska (Alaska State Troopers) "Informed Consent Release and hold harmless for confidentiality of Pre-Employment Background Investigation Data"
"I recognize that individuals must clearly demonstrate their personal, medical, and psychological fitness to serve in the position of a police officer. I further recognize that an employing agency has both a legal and moral obligation to take every reasonable effort to ensure that any person employed by them as police officers will conform to the very highest standards.

I understand that I am authorizing an intensive investigation into all aspects of my personal, medical and psychological fitness, and that such an investigation will include contacting persons and/or organizations who have information relating to my fitness. I also understand that those persons and/or organizations may feel inhibited, intimidated or other-wise reticent about furnishing legitimate information concerning my fitness unless the confidentiality of their information can be guaranteed on a permanent basis.

I further understand that although some of the information contained in this report is a matter of public record, or would otherwise be accessible to me, this information will be inextricably interwoven with other confidential data to which I otherwise would not be privy. I therefore understand that I will not be provided or have access to the information obtained in the course of this background investigation.

Therfore I exonerate, release and discharge my prospective employer, the Department of Public Safety, and it's officers, agents, and assigns, now and in the future, from any claim of damages, whether in law or in equity, on behalf of myself, my heirs, agents, or assigns, for their refusal to make available any and all information contained in this pre-employment investigation, including but not limited to the identity of any person or organization who may have supplied information in the course of this investigation, as well as the substance of any such information supplied, even where such information has been the basis for my disqualification for further consideration.

I knowingly, voluntarily, specifically, and permanently waive any rights I may have to examine, review, or to otherwise discover the contents of this investigation and all documents related. I have had adequate time to review this form, I understand it's meaning and purpose.

Applican Signature________________________"


in other words, in order to protect the rights of others, you must first give up yours.......no if ands or buts

The LAPD documentation I requested arrived yesterday (27 July 2001). It includes:

1) Police Officer Applicant Polygraph Examination Waiver

2) Los Angeles Police Officer Polygraph Notification Form (76 kb PDF); a two-page instruction sheet to applicants with a map to the "test" facility (Parker Center) on the back

3) Report to the Board of Civil Service Commissioners - Pre-Employment Polygraph Examination for Entry Level Police Officer and Police Specialist Candidates - includes revisions to Personnel Department Policy 1.13. (The key revisions are in Attachment 1.)