The Department of Homeland Security has decided not to file human labor trafficking charges against Anza-based Olivet University, allowing a civil lawsuit by former students who lodged the complaints to move forward

Under an agreement by attorneys for both sides, the lawsuit had been on hold since April 2024, pending the outcome of a criminal investigation into the private Christian college by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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According to a status report on the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Sept. 30, in U.S. District Court in Riverside, an HSI agent informed the parties in the litigation that “no charges are going to be filed against Olivet University or anyone affiliated with Olivet University that arise out of or

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