I really think that the law should be changed so that doing stuff like that would have been a prison term for the CEO (Allred).
The “California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education”? This is indistinguishable from parody.
The reason you register is so the state can periodically check your marketing material and field students complaints. For example, Lambda School lied about how many students get jobs, and it would have been real nice for the agency to have stepped in before the lawsuits, which are still in litigation.
Do you feel the same way about the bureau of consumer protection in the US FTC?
Our counsel told us we didn't need to register with the BPPE because we weren't offering in-person classes (this was somewhat rare back in 2017 - certainly more rare than now). The BPPE sent us a letter that said we needed to register and we did so and began working with the BPPE instantly. We never ever lied about that fact, and there was no attempt to avoid regulation in any way.
He also lied about having an auditor verify their placement rates. Caught asking Bookface for an auditor reference while proclaiming it was audited.
I asked if there was an auditor who would verify them after the fact to show that they were accurate, but we had had never claimed they were audited at that point.
Unfortunately auditors doing that is a months-long process, so we could only have them audit subsequent reports (which they have done).