AntiPolygraph.org has received the following anonymous complaint against the Marston Polygraph Academy, an American Polygraph Association accredited school in San Bernardino, California:


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3/12/2007 To: American Polygraph Association; State of CA Bureau for Private Post-secondary and Vocational Education; others Fraud complaint about Marston Polygraph Academy, San Bernardino California +++ Attempt to defraud both students and APA itself +++ Gentlepersons: The current class of this expensive academy is in its second week. On the first day, last week, it was learned that the scheduled hours on their web site (8am-5pm M-F, 1 hr lunch, 40 class hours per week) was only to be appease [sic] APA and BPPVE as students were told it would really be 9am-330pm M-F, 1 hour lunch. After it was realized that this didn't meet the APA requirement for schooling hours, the students were advised, an exact quote: "If you don't tell them (APA), we won't either". This school is chosen despite closer and lower-cost alternatives because ALL OTHER polygraph academies near Los Angeles are NOT 'APA approved'. This school only recently became approved by APA, in good part by guaranteeing APA the required hours. The reality is: each student (and APA) is getting about 100 hours less of teaching than promised. BPPVE also approved Marston (25448403) based on the guaranteed 320 hours; BPPVE also had a recent problem with this school operating unlicensed by BPPVE. Shorting the students nearly 1/3 of the promised hours is fraud. Current and past students will be hesitant to confirm this as they have already been given the 'APA is the most important part of your future' speeches and will be scared to cooperate with investigations/interviews by APA and BPPVE due to loss of potential APA membership qualification. Hopefully the self-policing APA will revoke this fairly recently-issued 'approval' and show that they will do this even to its own long-time members who run the school (the anti-polygraph organization has jumped on past examples of APA appearing to turn a blind-eye to member misdeeds). It is hoped that BPPVE will also fine and/or terminate this school, and make use of tuition reimbursement for all past/current students.  Thank you.