When youth are harmed inside residential programs, the legal record is often the only paper trail that survives. Lawsuits, criminal complaints, and regulatory actions create documented evidence of abuse, negligence, and misconduct — evidence that facilities cannot shred, reframe, or bury.

Unsilenced maintains a centralized tracker of legal proceedings involving Troubled Teen Industry programs across the United States. By aggregating cases across facilities, operators, and jurisdictions, we expose the patterns that individual cases alone cannot reveal: repeat offenders, systemic cover-ups, ownership networks that simply rebrand and reopen after losing in court.

This database below serves survivors, attorneys, journalists, researchers, and policymakers who need a clear picture of where accountability has been sought — and where it has been denied.

What we track:

• Civil lawsuits filed by survivors and families
• Criminal charges and convictions involving staff or operators
• Regulatory actions, license revocations, and state investigations
• Settlements and court judgments
• Cases involving facilities that have since closed or rebranded

Have information about a legal matter we haven’t captured (past or present)? If you are a survivor, family member, attorney, or whistleblower with knowledge of criminal or civil proceedings involving a TTI program, use the form below to submit documents and case information. All submissions are reviewed by our team and handled with care.