We have added an additional 20 Formal Complaints to the site. Formal complaints are complaints which have been made to an agency or organization, as opposed to the various complaints made on the internet, which we consider to be Informal Complaints.
Many of these were made to the Better Business Bureau in California during a period between 2008 and 2011, and are regarding various Narconon Fresh Start (aka Narconon Southern California) entities such as Sunshine Summit Lodge in California, Newport Beach (now closed, also in California), Narconon Fort Collins in Colorado, and Narconon Lone Star Victory Ranch in Texas. They were found on the BBB website, unredacted, and have now been removed. We have redacted the clients’ names from them.
Here’s the list of new complaints:
- Complaint to Michael D. Kobrin of Narconon Southern California, March 23, 2005
- Complaint to Narconon’s Lawyer, Narconon Trois Rivieres, June 21, 2007
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fresh Start, March 21, 2008
- Narconon Newport Beach, Another satisfied customer… Complaint to California Attorney General, March 26, 2008
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fort Collins, August 1, 2008
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fresh Start, April 30, 2009
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fresh Start, August 6, 2009
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Southern California, September 18, 2009
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Warner Springs, November 19, 2009
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Warner Springs, December 18, 2009
- Complaint to BBB About Narconon Fresh Start, March 31, 2010
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Vista Bay, June 2, 2010
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fort Collins, June 22, 2010
- Complaint to BBB, Texas Lonestar Victory Ranch, October 15, 2010
- Complaint to BBB, Sunshine Summit Lodge, February 2, 2011
- Complaint to BBB, Texas Lonestar Victory Ranch, February 2, 2011
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Warner Springs, July 14, 2011
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fort Collins, September 8, 2011
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Fresh Start, October 17, 2011
- Complaint to BBB, Narconon Gulf Coast, April 5, 2013
Looking at the frequency of complaints regarding just the Fresh Start facilities over a 3-year period to just the Better Business Bureau leads me to wonder what a timeline of grievances against all the Narconons and Narconon-clones might look like. Might be an interesting exercise in data collection…
Ah, another time, perhaps. We have more complaints and other documents that will be added soon. 🙂 or 🙁 , depending on your point of view, I guess. Subscribe if you’d like to be notified when we publish them.