Polygraph tests; prohibition against
§ 160.45 Polygraph tests; prohibition against.
1. No district attorney, police officer or employee of any law enforcement agency shall request or require any victim of a sexual assault crime to submit to any polygraph test or psychological stress evaluator examination.
2. As used in this section, "victim of a sexual assault crime" means any person alleged to have sustained an offense under article one hundred thirty or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law.
No DA, police officer, or law-enforcement employee may request or require a sexual-assault victim to take a polygraph ("lie detector") or psychological stress evaluator exam. ★ "Victim of a sexual assault crime" = anyone alleged to have suffered an offense under Penal Law Art. 130 or §§ 255.25, 255.26, or 255.27.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 3 — The JG-22 Criminal Procedure Law and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.