Complaint about a California polygraph examiner: he charged $400 and gave useless results of 'No Opinion'. Then said he had to leave without doing another chart because he said he was a police officer and had to get to work; research showed different information than that . . .

Complaint about a California polygraph examiner: he charged $400 and gave useless results of 'No Opinion'. Then said he had to leave without doing another chart because he said he was a police officer and had to get to work; research showed different information than that . . .

(No public identifiers are listed here. If you recognize yourself here, and if the complaint is true, please correct the situation for the future. Courtesy of Polygraph Examiners Of America, peoa.US )

Recent past complaints: N
Examiner gender: M

Details as per Complainant:

Client, a young woman, has a husband who has been incarcerated for 5 years. He got 'the feeling' that his wife might have contact with other guy(s) in his prison, so she offered to take a polygraph test.

She went to the test with her mother-in-law. When done, Examiner reportedly said that (instead of issuing a 'Pass' or a 'Fail') he was issuing the score of 'No Opinion' specifically because her "breathing was shallow".

As Client claimed to have never had ANY contact with any other inmate, she was in disbelief that she didn't easily 'Pass'. She said that he said he couldn't administer another chart because he said he was a police officer and had to get to work. She and her mother-in-law left very upset.

As the examiner's polygraph website told that Examiner was a RETIRED officer from a small municipal police department, they now felt double-lied to. Further research revealed that Examiner has other social media format that says he is a polygraph examiner at a different law enforcement agency.

Client and mother-in-law went to another polygraph examiner, one that was not 'rushed' and had far more experience than the 'No Opinion' examiner. They did NOT tell this Examiner about the prior  test. Client easily scored No Deception Indicated (a 'Pass') on multiple charts. Then, as a 4-page report was was being written, the details of the bad testing was shared.


Note: breathing sensitivity is easily adjustable on a modern computerized instrument. As some shirt material or layers of clothing can dampen breathing reactions and make them shallow, there is an on-screen adjustment to instantly adjust for it.