[1] The cemetery has had a history of care issues in the last 20 years, and since 2020 Woodlawn Memorial Park is only open for visitation.

[4] By January 2020, Suarez surrendered the cemetery license after the property taxes went unpaid, the water was turned off, the grounds were not cared for, and graves were no longer marked.

[1] In 2021, Celestina Bishop, whose family is buried at the cemetery, made an effort to organize hundreds of volunteers and clean up the grounds.

[1][5] Bishop and her husband Marvis Jackson formed One Section At A Time (OSAAT), a nonprofit associated with cemetery clean up.

[6] In January 2024, a large sum of graves were vandalized, and thieves stole the metal and copper off of the gravestones, and lawn care equipment.