Sec. 1703.306. CONFIDENTIALITY OF EXAMINATION RESULTS  


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  • (a) A polygraph examiner, trainee, or employee of a polygraph examiner, or a person for whom a polygraph examination is conducted or an employee of the person, may not disclose information acquired from a polygraph examination to another person other than:

    (1) the examinee or any other person specifically designated in writing by the examinee;

    (2) the person that requested the examination;

    (3) a member, or the member's agent, of a governmental agency that licenses a polygraph examiner or supervises or controls a polygraph examiner's activities;

    (4) another polygraph examiner in private consultation; or

    (5) any other person required by due process of law.

    (b) The department or any other governmental agency that acquires information from a polygraph examination under this section shall maintain the confidentiality of the information.

    (c) A polygraph examiner to whom information acquired from a polygraph examination is disclosed under Subsection (a)(4) may not disclose the information except as provided by this section.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 213 , Sec. 18, eff. May 27, 2009.