Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- The facility Lindsay Lohan entered Thursday to comply with court-ordered rehab is not licensed to provide alcohol or drug rehab treatment , a state official said . Lohan , 26 , flew from New York to California last night to check into Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach , California , by the Thursday morning deadline for her to start her 90-day sentence . When Los Angeles Superior Judge James Dabney sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail in March he gave her the option of serving the time in a `` lock down rehab '' facility . `` If a 24-hour residential facility is providing treatment or services to promote the recovery of alcohol and drug abuse then they must possess a license , '' deputy director for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs Millicent Tidwell said . None of Morningside 's several California locations are licensed , Tidwell said . The company previously had three licenses , but they were all revoked . The state 's licensing agency is currently in litigation with Morningside 's unlicensed Newport Beach facility , she said . It is not known if prosecutors will ask the judge to order Lohan to move to another facility or else be sent to jail to serve out the sentence . The city attorneys for Santa Monica and Los Angeles , who were jointly prosecuting the actress , did not immediately respond to CNN inquiries . Judge Dabney ordered the treatment after Lohan entered pleas of no contest on charges relating to a traffic accident and she was found in violation of her shoplifting probation with those convictions . `` It 's not her fault , '' her father said . `` This poor kid was a mess before she left . '' Her lawyer , Mark Heller , arranged for Lohan to check into Morningside Recovery without approval by the prosecutors , he said . `` Lindsay had no idea that Morningside was n't approved , '' Michael Lohan said . Heller appeared in a Los Angeles court to discuss the matter with the judge and prosecutors Thursday morning . Her father , who has bitterly opposed Heller 's representation of Lohan , said he has been urging his daughter to go the the Lukens Institute in Palm Beach Gardens , Florida , which bills itself as a `` luxury rehab center . '' `` The Lukens Institute is where she wanted to go all along -- a place she will get the right treatment and finally get better , '' Michael Lohan said . Her six years of legal troubles trace back to two drunken driving arrests in 2007 and include other incidents in which she was behind the wheel . Lohan was charged with reckless driving and lying to a police officer about a June 2012 car crash in which her Porsche crashed in to a dump truck on the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica , California . Her arrest triggered the probation violation charge . The police report said Lohan denied being behind the wheel , but the prosecutor was expected to call witnesses who say she was driving . Lindsay Lohan acknowledged her drug and alcohol addiction in past court appearances . She 's spent 250 days in five rehab facilities since January 2007 , including one long court-ordered stint after a failed drug test . The actress has appeared in court at least 20 times before four Los Angeles judges who have now found her in violation of probation six times and sentenced her to a total of nine months in jail . Lohan has spent about two weeks behind bars in six trips to the Los Angeles County jail , served 35 days under house arrest and worked about 67 days of community service at the county morgue .
January : Lohan checks into Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach , California . NEW : California regulators revoked Morningside 's drug treatment licenses , official report . A judge ordered 90 to ` ` lock down '' rehab for recent convictions . Madonna 's father wants her to go to a Florida rehab facility .