{"id":3306,"date":"2001-11-13T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2001-11-13T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T21:01:32","slug":"forced-polygraph-interrogations-alleged-in-houston-p-d-whistleblower-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/13\/forced-polygraph-interrogations-alleged-in-houston-p-d-whistleblower-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Polygraph Interrogations Alleged in Houston P.D. Whistleblower Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an article titled “Whistle-blower finally gets trial,”<\/a> Rosanna Ruiz of the Houston Chronicle<\/em> reports on the case of Houston Police Department officer Paulino Zavala. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former Houston narcotics officer’s whistle-blower lawsuit will go to trial today after lingering in court for four years and benefiting from two appellate rulings that kept it from being dismissed.<\/p>

Paulino Zavala alleges the Houston Police Department retaliated against him after he reported improprieties by internal affairs division investigators during their probe of a narcotics department clerk.<\/p>

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In 1996, Zavala reported to a supervisor and then-Police Chief Sam Nuchia that internal affairs investigators had violated policy by releasing confidential information about the clerk to those outside the department.<\/p>

Zavala’s letter to Nuchia also accused the investigators of discrimination, coercion and intimidation of a witness.<\/p>

Zavala’s suit said he was harassed, forced to take three polygraph tests, placed under surveillance and arrested without probable cause as a result of his complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Pseudoscientific polygraph “tests,” which can be manipulated by the polygrapher to produce the desired outcome, are a godsend for the corrupt public official seeking to discredit a whistleblower.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an article titled “Whistle-blower finally gets trial,” Rosanna Ruiz of the Houston Chronicle reports on the case of Houston Police Department officer Paulino Zavala. Excerpt: A former Houston narcotics officer’s whistle-blower lawsuit will go to trial today after lingering in court for four years and benefiting from two appellate rulings that kept it from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[371,320],"class_list":{"0":"post-3306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-houston","8":"tag-texas","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}