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Placement violations occur when a person who is under a court-ordered placement, such as a group home, goes missing from that placement. The key is that there is a legal arrangement requiring the individual to be in that specific location. In this scenario, the person is 21 or under and placed by a court order into a group home, so their disappearance means they’re not where the court expected them to be, which fits the definition of a placement violation.

The other situations don’t involve a court-ordered placement being violated. A missing person over 65 is a general missing-person case, not a placement violation. A missing person in a hospital or in a shelter could be a missing-person case, but it does not imply a court-ordered placement has been breached.