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ANNAPOLIS — Del. Mike McKay tried Tuesday to convince the House Judiciary Committee to back a bill to change the requirement that potential state correctional officers undergo lie-detector tests. McKay’s bill is an attempt to reduce the number of vacancies among correctional officers, which legislative analysts currently estimate at nearly 20 percent statewide. It would not eliminate polygraph tests altogether, but would let corrections officials to either require the test or a more extensive background check — or both. “We believe these six words, ‘or extensive background check, or both,’ will begin to address our staffing shortage,” McKay, R-Washington/Allegany, said. The bill — co-sponsored by Del. William Wivell, R-Washington — got a mixed reaction from committee members, several of whom wondered whether the polygraph requirement could simply be scaled back. No one testified against the bill. Wivell told the committee he’d learned through meetings with co...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Two Delegates from Washington County have put forward a bill that would make polygraph tests optional for correctional officers in state prisons.  Correctional vacancies in the Department of Public Safety and Correction Services have increased from two percent to around 20 percent over the past six years.  "We have heard just a lot of cases in the way the polygraphs are being administered that keeps a lot of good folks from being hired," said Del. Wivell. "So, hopefully will ease into the hiring process, so we are able to hire those vacancies."  Under the current law, an applicant for a position as a State correctional officer could conduct a a polygraph examination before being appointed to the position. But, an employer in the State "may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a lie detector or similar test." According to DPSCS,...

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Kan released a tape Monday morning, in which Knesset Member Osnat Mark spoke to activists at a conference in the north a few days ago. She spoke of the Likud Party’s anger of the justice system in the Naveh affair . Retiring Bar Association Chairman Attorney Effi Naveh recently resigned over suspicions that he pushed for the promotion of judges in exchange for sexual favors. Just last month, he was arrested for having allegedly helped a woman enter the country without a passport. He claimed he was helping her avoid private investigators as she was going through an ugly divorce. “It’s very sad to see what is happening in the judicial system,” said MK Mark, who is a recent member to the Knesset having joined when Former Deputy Minister Zaki Levi was elected mayor of Beit She’an. “In the next Knesset, I intent to enact a law that states that just like a police commissioner and officer undergo a polygraph, so too, every judge should undergo a polygraph. In light of the recent turmoil,”...

Fervor about opportunity zones is heating up across the U.S. For a limited time, investors who develop real estate or fund businesses in these areas are able to defer capital gains on profits earned elsewhere and completely eliminate them on new investments in 8,700 low-income census tracts. The goal is to reinvigorate these areas. But the question is whether the 2017 tax law will, as  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicts, pump $100 billion into places that need it most, or if investors will play it safe by funding projects in a few zones already on the upswing. There’s no lack of optimism among officials in shrinking Rust Belt towns, wind-swept Western landscapes and hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, who hope to jump-start local economies. The incentives are so flexible they could be used for everything from affordable housing to solar farms. Yet on the investor side, much of the attention is fixed on how to turn a profit in already thriving areas. They include neighbor...

BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. -- The wife of Tyrone Hassel III admitted to investigators she and her boyfriend planned to kill her husband while they were in Michigan on leave, according to court records. Kemia Hassel and Jeremy Cuellar have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Tyrone Hassel III on New Year's Eve. Around 11 p.m. on December 31, Tyrone was shot outside his parents' home on Colfax in St. Joseph Township. He had been shot in the head, neck and torso. Tyrone was transported to the hospital where he was later pronounced deceased. Through the investigation and tips, officers developed Kemia as a suspect in her husband's murder. On January 11, 2019, Kemia spoke with investigators. She denied being involved in Tyrone's murder and took a polygraph. Police said she failed the polygraph. During questioning, Kemia admitted she and Cuellar made plans to kill Tyrone, reports said. Kemia told police Cuellar came to Benton Harbor four times between December...

A Superior Court judge has reversed her decision and said Waterbury village did not break the law when it fired a police officer in 2012. The case of Adam Hubacz v. Village of Waterbury has spent the past six years winding its way though federal and state courts. In a decision issued in April, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the village’s trustees acted appropriately, and sent the case back to Washington County Superior Court for a fresh look, in light of the justices’ decision. In December, Superior Court Judge Mary Miles Teachout followed the guidance offered by the Supreme Court and reversed her previous decision. “The village lawfully terminated Mr. Hubacz’s employment,” Teachout wrote as part of a four-page decision. According to Supreme Court documents, the case began when Hubacz — who joined the Waterbury Police Department in 2009 — applied for a job with the St. Albans Police Department. As part of his application, Hubacz was subject to a polygraph test, preceded ...

Former Sarasota County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob D. Pond resigned during internal affairs investigation SARASOTA — A Sarasota County Sheriff's Office deputy resigned last year after it was discovered that he was under criminal investigation by the Venice Police Department for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old girl, the Herald-Tribune has learned. Jacob D. Pond, 26, was hired by the Sheriff's Office on Dec. 4, 2017. Six days later — Dec. 10, the day the incident allegedly took place — Venice police investigators notified the Sheriff's Office about the case. "They (Venice Police) started an investigation," said Chief Deputy Col. Kurt Hoffman. "That’s how we become aware of it — after he was hired. He passed the pre-employment (background check)." According to internal affairs reports, the victim stayed overnight at Pond's home with her mother, Pond's girlfriend. The victim told investigators she awoke to find Pond masturbating while touching h...

In his 10 years conducting polygraph examinations, David Poston has a knack for spotting lies. A microexpression on the face of an interviewee can tip Poston off to a lie he's being told long before a client is in the polygraph�chair. But his true analysis comes when the machine is hooked up and reading everything from heart rate and breathing to tiny movements in the feet and arms. As a private investigator and licensed polygrapher, obtaining the facts is Poston�s job at Truth Verification, the business he owns and operates out of Shelby. Years of training and experience have taught Poston what to look for on polygraph tests and in interviews while investigating. �When we tell a lie certain things happen inside of our bodies we have no control over, and that is your anatomic nervous system,� he said. Poston spent 20 years of his life involved in national security and foreign intelligence with the military before devoting 22 years to civilian law enforcement. His years in law...

Roy Moore on Monday released the results of a polygraph test he took 13 months ago, which he maintains clears him of sexual accusations made against him by three women. Moore first revealed the exam, often known as a lie detector test, in a lawsuit he filed in December 2017 to stop the certification of the special Senate election results he narrowly lost to Doug Jones. As the dueling lawsuits between Moore and one of the accusers, Leigh Corfman, move forward, AL.com obtained a copy of the exam’s results. Moore also posted a statement about the polygraph on his Facebook page that includes a link where supporters can contribute to his legal fund. Roy Moore speaks out: What’s next? According to the six-page document, the exam was conducted Dec. 19, 2017, by Clyde Wolfe, president of Commercial Polygraph in Birmingham. The questions Moore was asked as well as the answers were included in the document. Each of the questions required only a “yes” or “no” answer. Moore was asked ques...

(Credit: maryland.gov) ANNAPOLIS , Md. - A house bill is being presented to Maryland lawmakers next week to alter the hiring process for correctional officers. House Bill 12 proposes having candidates take a polygraph test "and/or" an extensive background check.  Western Maryland Delegate Mike McKay says he sponsored the bill after hiring correctional officers did not go past single digits in his district.  "And the number one issue that kept coming up was the polygraph, the polygraph. We just can't get enough people to pass the polygraph," McKay said.  Local lawmakers are also on board with the bill in response to the understaffing concerns at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Somerset County.  Wicomico County Delegate Carl Anderton says after the recent indictments against some corrupt correctional officers, it's made it impossible to get even the good candidates hired in Maryland.  "I saw numbers from this past year that showed it's...

MK Eitan Cabel spoke at the Labor Party convention in Tel Aviv on Thursday, and slammed the demands of party chairman Avi Gabbaiy to appoint candidates on the Labor list for the next Knesset. "To all those who think that I am going to resign - forget it, this is my home, I fought for it, I fought for it, no one will throw me out of my house, yours ... We are here in battle for our home, our values ​​that we believe in," Cabel said. MK Cabel presented the results of a polygraph test showing that Cabel did not lie when he stated that Gabbay had threatened to "destroy" the Labor party. Gabbay claimed that I had lied that he threatened to destroy the party against us, and this morning I initiated a polygraph test and found myself telling the truth. It was discovered again that he lied and not for the first time." "Everything is on you," he told Gabbay. "You destroyed the Zionist Union without consulting anyone. You led, and you navigated. This fa...

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