Athletic Department Locker Policy

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Purpose

The College makes lockers available to students and/or for faculty to facilitate the daily storage of their learning materials and items related to their studies.  The College manages lockers to ensure responsible use of property and for the health and safety of individuals: however, the College shall have no liability for the contents of any such lockers and/or students’ use of lockers.

Agreement/Acknowledgement

The College establishes rules, guidelines, and procedures to ensure responsible use and to control the contents of its lockers.  By utilizing the College’s lockers, the students and faculty acknowledge and agree; that lockers’ use is a privilege and subject to immediate termination without notice and to such rules, guidelines, and procedures established by the College from time to time, in its discretion.

Guidelines

  1. A limited number of student lockers are available to registered students and are issued on a first-come, first-serve basis.  Only College-issued locks are allowed on campus lockers.
  2. Students can register and be issued a locker during the Athletics Office normal hours of operation.  Students must show valid C-GCC student ID and pay the non-refundable $5 locker fee per semester.
  3. All student lockers are valid until December 31st for first semester use and then May 31st for second semester use.  On or before May 31st, all locker contents must be removed.  After May 31st, any lockers not vacated or reissued will be emptied, and contents will be held by Security for 30 days.  After that time, items will be disposed of at the student’s expense.
  4. Any locks, other than those issued by the College, placed on student lockers will be removed, and locker contents held by Security for 30 days.  After that time, items will be disposed of at the student’s expense.
  5. Lockers are for individual use only and may not be shared.  Locker contents are the sole responsibility of the registered occupant of the locker, regardless of claimed ownership of the contents.
  6. The College is not in any way responsible for locker contents or liable for the loss of or damaged contents inside the locker.
  7. No person shall store in a locker; knives, guns, ammunition, weapons of any kind, explosives, prohibited drugs, pornography, illegal or illicit items or substances, or other items deemed by the College to be harmful, offensive, or inappropriate, or in violation of the College’s Code of Conduct or rules/procedures.
  8. An individual using a locker may have no expectation of privacy in that locker and of that locker’s contents.  The College or its agent or representative may in its sole discretion carry out or authorize searches/inspections for any reason at any time without notice to students. The following is a partial listing of when the College may exerITe its discretion to search/inspect lockers:
    • Locker abandonment;
    • Suspected contents that may be illegal, illicit, or deemed by the College to be harmful, offensive, or inappropriate, or in violation of the College’s Code of Conduct or rules/procedures;
    • At the request of or generally in cooperation with police authorities;
    • Investigative purposes related to suspected or alleged criminal, illegal or inappropriate activities;
    • Risk to the general good of the College;
    • Risk to the general good of the student population;
    • Unregistered lockers;
    • Physical damage to or defacing the locker;
    • Odors (spoiled/rancid food, garbage, or smelly contents).
      In the event a student’s locker is inspected without the student present, a College administrator shall be on hand to undertake reasonable efforts to notify the student of the inspection as soon as practicable.
  9. The College works with the local police authorities and maintains rights in the College’s sole discretion to allow police to carry out specific and random searches/inspections of locker contents.  Such searches/inspections may occur out with or without notice to the locker’s occupant and with or without the occupant being present.  Such police activity may include but is not limited to random drug or weapon searches of lockers, backpacks, book bags, briefcases, containers, jackets, and parkas.
  10. Students who are administratively withdrawn, banned, suspended, or expelled from campus must contact the Dean of Students’s Office to make arrangements for cleaning out their lockers.  After 30 days contents will be removed and disposed.

    Forms to obtain a locker must be signed and dated by the student and submitted to the Athletic Department.