Government Crackdown on Polygraph Instructors

Posted by: on Sep 12, 2013 | No Comments

In order to send a “strong message” to individuals teaching methods on how to pass polygraph examinations, U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady sentenced Chad Dixon, a little league coach and polygraph instructor, to eight months in prison for teaching up to a hundred people, including sex offenders and government employees, how to defeat lie-detector tests. This case and its decision led to questions regarding the government’s campaign against instructors like Dixon. Among the debates were whether or not the government should continue its hunt for these offenders, and where the line was drawn between an individual’s first amendment rights to discuss how to approach the polygraph exam and the “crime of teaching someone to lie while undergoing a government polygraph.”

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Source: The Seattle Times

Citation:

Taylor, M. The Seattle Times. Indiana man gets 8 months for lie-detector fraud. Retrieved September 11, 2013, from http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2021772209_lyingpenaltyxml.html.

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