{"id":4905,"date":"2024-05-13T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2024-05-13T03:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:27:25","slug":"california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-phasing-out-cvsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/13\/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-phasing-out-cvsa\/","title":{"rendered":"California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Phasing Out CVSA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AntiPolygraph.org has confirmed with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation<\/a> (CDCR) that its Office of Peace Officer Selection, which in 2016 began using Computer Voice Stress Analysis (CVSA) to screen applicants, terminated this practice in May of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CVSA is a thoroughly discredited, pseudoscientific lie detector that since 1988 has been marketed by the so-named National Institute for Truth Verification (NITV). The West Palm Beach, Florida company was founded by Charles Wayne Humble, a former Indiana police officer with no scientific training who fraudulently passes himself off as a Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A banner on the NITV website<\/a> that is still running at the time of this writing suggests that the CDCR was NITV’s best customer, having purchased 58 CVSA devices since 2017:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NITV Federal Services website masthead on 13 May 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a 2006 ABC Primetime report on CVSA<\/a>, Charles Humble boasted “One thousand five hundred police departments throughout the country have paid ten thousand dollars per system….” This would suggest that California taxpayers have wasted something on the order of $580,000 for a device that, by its manufacturer’s admission<\/a>, “is not capable of lie detection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CDCR should never have adopted CVSA for any purpose, as ample evidence that voice stress analysis does not work (and of Humble’s fraudulent claims about it) was publicly available long before CDCR began using CVSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happily, it appears that in addition to scrapping use of the CVSA for applicant screening, CDCR is also in the process of scrapping it for all<\/strong> purposes. In response to an inquiry from AntiPolygraph.org, CDCR information officer Mary Xjimenez confirmed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CDCR has used CVSA technologies\/tools on a limited basis as part of its pre-employment peace officer selection process, staff misconduct investigation process, incarcerated population threat assessments process, and institutional investigations regarding planned, attempted or actual escapes and information received of a potential security breach. CDCR is moving forward with regulations to end the use of CVSA across offices and institutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AntiPolygraph.org has confirmed with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that its Office of Peace Officer Selection, which in 2016 began using Computer Voice Stress Analysis (CVSA) to screen applicants, terminated this practice in May of 2023. CVSA is a thoroughly discredited, pseudoscientific lie detector that since 1988 has been marketed by the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[339,611,612,10,224],"class_list":{"0":"post-4905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-voice-stress","7":"tag-california","8":"tag-california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation","9":"tag-cdcr","10":"tag-cvsa","11":"tag-nitv","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","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=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}