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Source: Death of Max Benson

On November 30, 2018, 13-year-old Max Benson (October 2005 – 30 November 2018), an autistic boy from Davis, California, died at the hospital from cardiac complications as a result of being held in an extended prone physical restraint by staff at his now-defunct K-12 non-public school, Guiding Hands School in El Dorado County, California, where he was placed a few months prior by Davis Joint Unified School District, who denied Max and two other students a Free and Appropriate Education (FAPE).
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that the Davis Joint Unified School District in California had entered into a settlement after OCR examined whether the district's use of restraint and seclusion in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years denied its students with disabilities a FAPE in violation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Title II), and their implementing regulations. OCR determined that the district placed three of its students with disabilities in non-public school settings and violated their rights under Section 504 and Title II because Davis Joint Unified School District:

Failed to ensure that district staff making placement decisions for these students had access to and carefully considered information obtained about the use of physical restraint and/or seclusion with these students
Separately failed to ensure that those making decisions regarding behavioral interventions for these students were knowledgeable about each student, the meaning of the evaluation data, and the placement
Failed to reevaluate these students to determine whether the repeated use of restraint and seclusion for these students denied them a FAPE and if additional aids and services were appropriate to provide a FAPE
Denied a FAPE to all three students based on the above failures and resulting harms to the students
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing investigated, and after a 10-day evidentiary hearing before an Administrative Law Judge conducted by the Office of Administrative Hearing, in which the complainant was represented by the Attorney General, the Commission issued a decision that dismissed the accusation against the principal of the non-public school, finding school staff were properly trained in use of restraints.
While Benson was initially reported to have been 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weigh 280 pounds (130 kg), these figures were disputed by the family, who stated that he was "8 inches shorter and 50 pounds lighter" than what the school claimed to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. During the extended physical restraint, Benson became unresponsive. Following a 10-day evidentiary hearing conducted by an Administrative Law Judge, who issued a decision adopted by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing that found the school properly trained staff in restraints. According to the investigation conducted by the California Department of Education, which afterward suspended Guiding Hands School's certification, Benson was held in a prone restraint for an extended period of time, and he urinated on himself and vomited. Guiding Hands staff failed to call emergency services promptly after Benson became unconscious. Benson was taken to the UC Davis Medical Center, where he subsequently died two days later from cardiac complications. Three staff from Guiding Hands School are facing criminal charges in Benson's death, including felony manslaughter; a civil lawsuit has also been filed against Guiding Hands, several former employees, and against Davis Joint Unified School District and its employees that placed Max at the school and other Northern California school districts that contracted with the school.