Polygraph Examiners Act

The Polygraph Examiners Act regulates the practice of polygraph examination as a licensed occupation, barring unlicensed persons from conducting examinations and setting the qualifications, application procedures, fees, renewal terms, and continuing education needed to obtain and keep a license. It provides an internship path into the field, recognizes examiners licensed elsewhere through reciprocity, sets minimum standards for the instruments used, and empowers the administering authority to issue implementing rules and to refuse, suspend, or revoke a license, subject to administrative and appellate review. The act also governs how examinations are conducted — recordkeeping and confidentiality duties, protections for the rights of the person examined, requirements on recording examinations, limits on how often an examiner may test a subject, and restrictions on employer action taken on the basis of results — and enforces its terms through penalties and injunctive relief.

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