WASHINGTON — Can flunking an FBI job entrance exam hurt your chances of getting another government job? Derrick T. Dortch, president of Derrick T. Dortch, president of the Diversa Group, a career ...

Can you handle the truth? Regardless, it's Tommy Platt's job to find it out. Platt, an investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff's Office, is also the agency's polygraph examiner. Also known as a ...

A Dayton police reform group wants the polygraph test administered to police candidates to be used specifically to try to winnow out racists and white supremacists, as well as authoritarians. The ...

The polygraph, known more commonly as the “lie detector,” has a long and controversial history as a forensic tool, but it has also been used in a variety of other contexts, including employment ...

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar is pushing to give U.S. Customs and Border Protection more discretion in its polygraph screening process for Border Patrol hires. The amendment, added to a major Homeland ...

A bill Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced Friday could streamline Border Patrol's hiring process by eliminating the polygraph requirement for some candidates with law enforcement or military ...

Can you handle the truth? Regardless, it’s Tommy Platt’s job to find it out. Platt, an investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, is also the agency’s polygraph examiner. Also known as a ...