2019 California enforcement dispute

In 2019, California officials sought to shut down River View Christian Academy's Whitmore campus after state officials characterized the school as an unlicensed community-care facility. Snopes summarized the dispute and noted that approximately 30 high-school-aged children remained at the residential school while the controversy unfolded (Snopes).

News coverage of the dispute followed earlier reporting in which former students alleged that the school punished students for being gay or bisexual. The school and its legal advocates disputed the state's position, and Pacific Justice Institute announced that a judge had rejected California's immediate attempt to close the school (KTVL, Pacific Justice Institute).