As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Detection of deception examiner,” referred to in this chapter as “examiner,” means any person, other than a trainee, who uses any device or instrument to test or question individuals for the purpose of detecting deception. Before a person may be licensed as an examiner, he or she must have at least one (1) year‘s experience in detection of deception. Before an examiner may supervise a trainee, he or she must have at least two (2) years’ experience in detection of deception;
(2) “Trainee” means any person who has successfully completed a polygraph examiner’s course at a polygraph examiner‘s school approved by the cabinet, but who has not been awarded the final certificate of proficiency or graduate certificate from the school, or any person, not a licensed examiner, who administers detection of deception examinations under the direct, personal supervision and control of a licensed examiner who is licensed by this state. No examiner may have more than two (2) trainees under his or her supervision and control at any one (1) time;
(3) “Person” means any natural person, partnership, association, corporation, or trust;
(4) “Cabinet” means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky;
(5) “Secretary” means the secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky;
(6) “Polygraph” means an instrument which records permanently and simultaneously a subject’s cardiovascular and respiratory patterns and other physiological changes pertinent to the detection of deception; and
(7) “Polygraph examiner” means the same as detection of deception examiner.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 298, effective June 26, 2007. — Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 44, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. — Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch.
74, Art. V, sec. 24(13). — Created 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 1.