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George,

It took a while but this bill passed..

It is my opinion that there are times when a poly is a good thing. When one is applying for a job in LE, departments are looking for people that can be trusted. If one has to lie about their past then maybe they are looking for a job in the wrong field. We all make mistakes but we need to admit to those mistakes and be honest about what we have done wrong. I worked for a department where you were forgiven for wrong doing as long as you were honest. One would not get away scott free but honesty was rewarded simply by the fact that you were allowed to keep your job. A polygraph is not perfect but it a tool that can help in evaluating if one is truthful. Should it be the only tool used..probably not..a good background investigation in very important and all the information should be evaluated fairly. Do people get burned because investigations are not done the way they should be..probably yes. Is there another tool that can be used..something like brainscanning or the vocal testing..yes ..but are they proven and as cost effective as polygraphs..no, not at this time..would departments use them if they were..of course..this world is not perfect and right now a polygraph is a tool that can be used to try and help weed out applicants that are not suitable for LE jobs..it is not for a LE departments benefit because in this day and age every department is short of good people..do bad people get hired by faking their way through..I am sure they do..and who suffers..Joe public because we have the wrong people in positions of authority and the wrong people carying guns..What I would like to see you do is support good people who may have failed a poly because they were not given a way to explain or understand what caused them to fail not trying to help the wrong caliber person finding a way to get through the screening process.
There are a lot of good examiners out there ..ones who are willing to help people understand their test and help them figure out why they may had had negative responses..but at the same time there are those who are out to make a quick $ and do not care why their test subject had the responses they did. Those are things that need to be worked on in the polygraph field.

I am sorry for what happened to you..I can understand why you feel the way you do about polygraph's, I probably would feel the same if I was in your shoes, but finding or telling people how to "beat the sytem" is, in my opinion  (oop's there I go again with my opinions)..not a way to fix the situation.

I look forward to your response..