The state of Utah has revoked the license of a boarding school where socialite Paris Hilton says she was abused as a teenager, concluding that the school had “failed to provide applicable health and safety services for clients.” The action, effective Monday, cites multiple noncompliance issues at the Provo Canyon School’s campus in Springville, including failing to increase staff-to-client ratios, engaging in unnecessary restraint and aggressive physical contact, neglecting care, and not verifying employee information or submitting background checks in a timely manner. State health officials had already imposed temporary restrictions in May after staff didn't seek immediate medical care for a student with serious injuries. The school has 15 days to request a hearing.

“For more than fifty years, children came forward with stories of abuse, neglect, and trauma,” Hilton said in a statement. “Today, the state confirmed what survivors have known all along: Provo Canyon School failed the children in its care.” Hilton spent nearly a year at the school in the late 1990s, alleging staff beat her, watched her shower, fed her unknown pills, and locked her in solitary confinement without clothing. The hotel heiress and media personality, now 45, has testified in Congress and state legislatures, helping pass laws to protect teens in Utah and 15 other states.

Utah has long played an outsized role in the “troubled teen industry” of private, for-profit residential centers. Provo Canyon School, described on its website as a psychiatric residential treatment facility for youth ages 12 to 18, did not immediately respond to comment. The state says all services at the campus must be terminated by August 6. The school is under new ownership, which has said it cannot comment on anything before the change - including Hilton's time there.