Can information supplied at a pre-hire polygraph be forwarded to other agencies or is the information confidential to the agency who conducted the exam?
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Can information supplied at a pre-hire polygraph be forwarded to other agencies or is the information confidential to the agency who conducted the exam?
Asked on July 25, 2011 Florida
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
In most states in this country there are laws holding that polygraph results are simply not admissible in the court system either in a civil or criminal proceeding.
When you submitted to the pre-hire polygraph test with the agency that conducted the exam, did you sign an agreement with the agency or future employer about the contents if its results? If so, then the written agreement would set forth the start to the answer to your question.
In all likelihood, the polygraph test of you was done for a possible job hire with a certain employer. If so, the polygraph test results should be confidential solely for the hiring process of the intended employer and should not be given to any other person besides the intended employer.
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