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Placement status
Identifies categories of juveniles held in residential placement facilities. - Committed - Includes juveniles
in placement in the facility as part of a court-ordered
disposition. Committed juveniles include those whose cases
have been adjudicated and disposed in juvenile court and those
who have been convicted and sentenced in criminal court.
- Detained - Includes juveniles
held prior to adjudication while awaiting an adjudication
hearing in juvenile court, as well as juveniles held after adjudication
while awaiting disposition or awaiting placement elsewhere.
Also includes juveniles awaiting transfer to adult criminal court,
or awaiting a hearing or trial in adult criminal court.
- Diversion - Includes juveniles
sent to the facility in lieu of adjudication as part of a
diversion agreement.
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