{"id":4066,"date":"2003-10-02T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:25:27","slug":"former-trooper-can-file-suit-against-former-polygraph-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/02\/former-trooper-can-file-suit-against-former-polygraph-supervisor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Former Trooper Can File Suit Against Former Polygraph Supervisor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>NBC30.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc30.com\/news\/2527958\/detail.html\">reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>BRIDGEPORT, Conn.<\/strong> &#8212; A retired state trooper&#8217;s lawsuit against a former supervisor in the state police polygraph unit is being allowed to proceed. U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill refused this week to dismiss retired Trooper Adrienne Lamorte&#8217;s lawsuit that claims she was subject to retaliation after raising some questions about the accuracy of some lie detector tests.<\/p><p>Lamorte alleged that a supervisor in the state police polygraph unit was issuing faulty results.<\/p><p>Lamorte filed the federal lawsuit against John Leonard in 2001, claiming Leonard disciplined her after she lodged a complaint about Sgt. Randolph Howell&#8217;s conclusions on polygraph results.<\/p><p>Lamorte claimed Howell, a sergeant and commanding officer of the polygraph unit, was &#8220;conducting polygraph examinations in an incompetent manner.&#8221; the lawsuit states.<\/p><p>The lawsuit alleges Howell would report an examinee was truthful when the test scores indicated the opposite.<\/p><p>Lamorte was concerned about the consequences of false results so she relayed her concerns about Howell to Leonard, the lawsuit states.<\/p><p>Lamorte claims she was threatened in September 2000 with a disciplinary transfer unless she agreed to an administrative transfer out of the polygraph unit, according to the lawsuit.<\/p><p>She chose the administrative transfer and later retired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC30.com reports: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. &#8212; A retired state trooper&#8217;s lawsuit against a former supervisor in the state police polygraph unit is being allowed to proceed. U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill refused this week to dismiss retired Trooper Adrienne Lamorte&#8217;s lawsuit that claims she was subject to retaliation after raising some questions about the accuracy of &#8230;<\/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":[391,32,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-4066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-labor","9":"tag-litigation","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","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=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}