AntiPolygraph.org has received by fax another anonymous communication regarding the Marston Polygraph Academy:


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Marston Academy, continued... A law enforcement agency employee who attended last year has confirmed that his class also attended far less than the web-posted eight weeks of 8am to 5pm hours. His agency paid $4500 for his tuition. That law enforcement agency (and others) will likely soon be looking for a refund on the $14 per hour (in contract) total they paid, as they were charged for 320 hours of training and were given far less. No surprise here: APA had not contacted this employee, nor contacted students of other past classes, to verify that the fraudulent shorting of hours has been ongoing for quite some time. There was no investigation at all, other than the one school visit. APA has not yet revoked 'accreditation' they gave this school, for one reason: they need the membership dues of APA members to survive, and APA counts on such schools to convince their students to join. If APA were to properly distance itself from this rip-off school, APA would lose dozens of potential members every year. This would cost APA thousand [sic] of dollars per year, so just like they allow continued membership of phony PhDs and other fraudsters, they won't be punishing a school that has been defrauding the public. Guaranteed: the school will remain 'accredited' by APA. The only chance for proper handling (revocation, student reimbursement, and so on) falls to CA's school licensing bureau, and they are currently without the funding needed.

A letter from Barbara Ward, Chief of the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education indicates that the bureau is set to become inoperative on 1 July 2007 unless new legislation is enacted. This letter, as well as the above-transcribed text, are attached to this post as a single, two-page PDF file.

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