In March 2024, Netflix released a documentary about the troubled teen industry that mostly focused on one school in particular. The Academy at Ivy Ridge was located in Ogdensburg, N.Y., and was under the WWASP umbrella. The documentary's director, Katherine Kluber, was a prisoner at Ivy Ridge for 15 months in the mid-2000s. At one point in the series, she visited Lichfield's sprawling estate in Utah where she was told by his nephew that Lichfield was never there. In fact, his nephew wasn't sure where his uncle was.

Despite avoiding the media and public scrutiny, Lichfield's name still pops up from time to time. The Salt Lake Tribune reported in June 2023 that some residents of Hurricane, Utah were trying to put a stop to the creation of a recreational building donated by the WWASP founder. Hurricane Mayor Nanette Billings reached out to Lichfield in 2021 after she was elected, and begged him to donate a building he wasn't using. He agreed on the condition that she take the building as-is.

Billings also offered to name the building after Lichfield despite the protests from residents, a lot of whom were former students of WWASP facilities. During a press conference, Billings gave a lukewarm apology to those who had been forced to attend one of the troubled teen boarding schools by saying she didn't know any of the people who hurt them and by the way, forgiveness is important. Lichfield wasn't present for this as he was reportedly out of the country at the time.