Copies of this letter were sent by priority mail on 30 June 2001.

On 23 July 2001, City of Los Angeles Public Safety Employment Division Chief Phyllis M. Lynes mailed the following documents in response to this request:

• Los Angeles Police Department Polygraph Examination Waiver
   
• Los Angeles Police Department Polygraph Notification Form (76 kb PDF). This two-page form letter is used to notify LAPD applicants of the time and date of their pre-employment polygraph interrogations, where to report, guidelines to follow, and provides a strip map of Parker Center.
   
• LAPD polygraph policy recommendation letter from City of Los Angeles Personnel Department General Manager Margaret M. Whelan's to the Los Angeles Board of Civil Service Commissioners dated 3 January 2001
  • Attachment 1: Recommended revision to Policy 1.13 of the Policies of the Personnel Department, making pre-employment polygraph screening mandatory for LAPD.
  • Attachment 2: Policy 1.13 of the Policies of the Personnel Department (as of 3 Jan. 01)
  • Attachment 3: Recommended deletion from Policy 1.13B.b of reference to the use of independent polygraph examinations
     

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                                      Hart Nibbrigkade 22
                                      2597 XV Den Haag
                                      Netherlands
  
                                      maschke@antipolygraph.org
  
                                      Saturday, 30 June 2001
  
  PHYLLIS M. LYNES
  CHIEF, PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYMENT DIVISION
  700 EAST TEMPLE STREET
  LOS ANGELES CA 90012
  
  
  Dear Ms. Lynes:
  
  This is a request under the California Public Records Act 
  (California Government Code §§6250-6258).
  
  I request that copies of the following documentation be provided 
  to me:
  
  1.  Any polygraph consent and/or waiver form(s) that 
      employees of, or applicants for employment with, the 
      Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) are requested 
      and/or required to sign prior to administration of any 
      employment-related polygraph test.
  
  2.  Any Public Safety Employment Division rules, 
      guidelines, directives, circulars, communications, or 
      other instruments governing polygraph policy.
  
  I am willing to pay copy costs arising from this request up to 
  $15.00 consistent with CGC §6257. Please notify me if copy costs 
  will exceed this amount.
  
  In accordance with CGC §6256, I request a determination on this 
  request within 10 days of your receipt of it.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  [signed]
  
  George W. Maschke
  AntiPolygraph.org
  
  cc: Margaret Whelan, Personnel Department General Manager
  
  PS: A copy of this California Public Records Act request will be 
  placed on-line at http://antipolygraph.org/cpra/cpra-001.shtml
  

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