Media Coverage

"Parents, beware: A complete lack of federal oversight of summer camps and what at best is a patchwork quilt of state and local oversight leave your kids more vulnerable than you probably think when you entrust them to the care of such camps."

"Four-year old Yoni Gottesman was a happy, athletic kid from Santa Barbara. In 2005, Yoni went to swim camp at the Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club in Goleta. He never came home."

"A surveillance camera at the Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club captured the horrifying images of a 4-year-old child submerged motionless in the pool..."

"...the state's Community Care Licensing Division determined that the private facility broke the law by operating without a child care license and ordered it to shut down its kids' Activity Camp."

"...Mr. Gottesman said he is pushing for a criminal investigation to prevent another drowning. It was not the first time a child had been pulled from the pool and given CPR at the Athletic Club, which has been owned by Richard Berti since 1989."

"The attorneys for the family of a 4-year-old boy who drowned last year at a Goleta athletic club are urging the state attorney general to launch a criminal investigation, saying earlier probes by the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office, finding no criminal wrongdoing, were deeply flawed."

"...lifeguards and counselors did not receive proper training and did not watch the camp participants closely enough."