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This is what the DC police said:Not if the patient has been probated into the facility. Since he was there as a result of law enforcement, he had to have been probated. The law regarding the handling of a probated patient are the same for private and public facilities.
They are not required to report a patient who is voluntarily there for treatment to law enforcement immediately.
"Police union chief Kris Baumann said the District is sending delinquents to other jurisdictions 'out of necessity' because it can't handle them on its own.
Those it does send, he said, 'are not kids who have shoplifted, these are hard-core bad guys.'"
(from my page 2 link)