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 ...

The Department of Homeland Security has begun administering polygraph tests to employees in an effort to identify those leaking information about immigration operations to the media, according to four ...

In this series on the polygraph, I’m reviewing some of the applications and issues of interest to security personnel considering polygraphs as a tool for pre-employment screening and in investigations ...

Though legal proceedings have found no evidence of wrongdoing in past Shasta County elections, improving election security has been a primary ambition for recently appointed County Clerk and Registrar ...

Federal agencies have stepped up their efforts over the past few weeks to find potential leakers, and some — like the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense — are ...

BLUFFTON — The Bluffton Police Department can now require its employees to take polygraph tests during internal investigations. Refusing to take a polygraph test can lead to termination. The ...

Shasta County's new election security measures include sealed containers and detailed handwritten logs for ballot handling. The public can observe vote counting in person or via a livestream from the ...