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Topic: Mandatory victim testing?
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Barry C
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posted 07-18-2006 07:35 AM
  
I thought we discussed this someplace else, but I couldn't find it.Anyhow, I did a pre-employment polygraph test yesterday, and the candidate worked for a law firm in Rhode Island. He told me they don't file charges in rape cases in which the case is a "he said / she said" (i.e., no physical evidence) unless and until the victim passes a polygraph test. Has anybody heard of that one? Do they do that any place else? It seems odd to me that would happen as a matter of practice given the fact that those tests are the most likely to end up as false positives. I think I've said elsewhere that I'd do them in very limited circumstances where there is some evidence the story is fabricated - not simply as a screening tool to decide to charge or not. IP: Logged |
ebvan
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posted 07-18-2006 09:15 AM
Barry I remembered the previous discussion. It was in an examiners only thread that started our as:
"Interesting letter to editor on our side"It seems an extremely odd policy for all of the reasons stated in that thread, but then isn't "The Family Guy" based in Quahog Rhode Island? Quagmire must be all giggity giggity to get into Polygraph School. [previous reference intended for others on this board who enjoy the extremely low-brow humor presented on that show] I would certainly hope that ethical examiners in that jurisdiction would address the issue. I can't help but wonder if your subject was trying to say they wouldn't file a civil suit since they were employed by a private firm rather than a prosecutors office. IP: Logged |
stat
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posted 07-19-2006 02:38 PM
I was perusing through some research grants through the federal government online grant catalog and found a large block of grants for the Violence Against Women's Act. The grants are for various agencies for funding rape kits, training and etc and saw that if an agency is using or has been allocated any of those monies than no victim shall undergo any variation of "lie detector" test. I haven't a clue how widespread those grants are distributed, so---who knows. If a , say---Homeland Security Grant/ patriot Act Grant had polygraph prohibitions attached--than I would hazard to guess that the effect would be widespread."hay, I'm beginning to think that I'm being interrogated here" -----sex offender IP: Logged |
ebvan
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posted 07-19-2006 03:33 PM
Here is what I found regarding the previous post. It does not appear to prohibit victim polygraph. It does prohibit an agency receiving grant funds from requiring a victim to submit to a polygraph as a condition of continuing an investigation or prosecution. a copy of the act can be found at: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h3402enr.txt.pdf or googled with VAWA
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