[1] The 2024 Netflix documentary series The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping documented the conditions at the facility and the lasting impact it had on the people who attended it.

The facility, the former home of Mater Dei College,[8] has over 200,000 square feet (20,000 m2) of building space which houses classrooms, dorms, recreational areas, computer centers, science labs, food services, and offices.

About 35 sheriff's deputies, state troopers, city police officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents assisted in ending the riot and capturing at least 30 runaways.

[10] Later in the 2024 documentary series The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping they stated that the Academy at Ivy Ridge had become overcrowded with people even sleeping on mattresses in the hallway.

[4] In 2024, following the release of The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping, the St. Lawrence County district attorney Gary Pasqua announced the launch of an investigation into the Academy at Ivy Ridge.

[11] As of June 3, 2024, the campus remains abandoned and the property is listed for sale at $875,000 On June 26, 2024, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Robert Lichfield's brother and fellow WWASPS associate Narvin Lichfield, who was director at the affiliated Academy at Dundee Ranch, had filed a civil lawsuit against The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping director Katherine Kubler and Netflix, alleging that he had been defamed and secretly recorded.

Various lawsuits against Ivy Ridge, including testimony from students, are documented in The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping, a Netflix docuseries released in 2024.

[14] Calls for the investigation and prosecution of former resident overseer, Amy Ritchie, began making their rounds on the internet following the documentary on Netflix in addition to former employee George Tulip and founder Robert Lichfield, all for child abuse.