King Overton

SwimRVA granted exemption to continue unlicensed summer camps after 9-year-old's drowning death

SwimRVA has been granted an exemption by the Virginia Department of Education to continue summer camp operations without a state license — weeks after a nine-year-old drowned at one of its camps. King Overton drowned during a summer camp at SwimRVA's North location in Henrico on June

Family of boy that drowned calls on state to reject SwimRVA's attempt to remain unlicensed

Lawyers for the family of King Overton toured the SwimRVA North facility in Henrico on Thursday with their experts, weeks after the nine-year-old drowned during a summer camp at the facility on June 15. Following Overton's death, questions arose about whether SwimRVA's summer camps

State finds SwimRVA should have been licensed before 9-year-old King Overton drowned

SwimRVA was required to obtain a license to operate a "child day program" from the Virginia Department of Education’s Superintendent but it did not, according to an email from a VDOE spokesperson. That means SwimRVA was operating an unlicensed child day program when nine-year-old King

Should SwimRVA have been licensed before 9-year-old King Overton drowned?