Minnesota Statutes

Minn. Stat. § 609.3456 (2026)

Use Of Polygraphs For Sex Offenders On Probation Or Conditional Release

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MN-REVrevisor.mn.gov (official) Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

(a) A court may order as an intermediate sanction under section 609.135 and the commissioner of corrections may order as a condition of release under section 244.05 or 609.3455 that an offender under supervision for a sex offense submit to polygraphic examinations to ensure compliance with the terms of probation or conditions of release.

(b) The court or commissioner may order the offender to pay all or a portion of the costs of the examinations. The fee may be waived if the offender is indigent or if payment would result in an economic hardship to the offender's immediate family.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2016–2024 · leading case: State v. Boecker, 893 N.W.2d 348 (Minn. 2017).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

State v. Boecker, 893 N.W.2d 348 (Minn. 2017). · cites it 2× “, Minn. Stat. § 609.3456 , subd. 1(h) (2016); Minn.”

State of Minnesota v. Forrest Grant Noggle, 881 N.W.2d 545 (Minn. 2016). “§ 609.3456, subd. 6. Nor does any-language appear in subdivision 6 that plainly includes an attempt.”

State of Minnesota v. Chad Michael Nowacki, 880 N.W.2d 396 (Minn. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 6× “§ 609.3456 (2014) allows the district court to order that an offender submit to polygraph examinations as a condition of probation when the offender has received a stay of imposition or execution of sentence.”

State of Minnesota v. Timothy Ivan Kotten (Minn. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “Minn. Stat. § 609.3456 (2014). Where, as here, sex-offender treatment is required as a condition of probation, it is axiomatic that the treatment program may contain a polygraph requirement specifically authorized by statute.”

In the Matter of the Welfare of: D. M. B., Child (Minn. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 2× “” Minn. Stat. § 609.3456 (a) (2022). The district court stated that, “probation believes that there is a specific need in terms of public safety and in terms of [appellant’s] progress that he complete a polygraph, [and] probation is permitted to arrange for that polygraph.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.