Safety

Suspicious and criminal activity, along with safety concerns, should be reported to the Security Department.

For emergencies, Blue Cap phones are located around campus. Activation of any of these phones opens a direct line between the caller and the 24-hour security desk. A strobe light activates on top of the phone, directing attention to the caller.

Security also can be reached by calling 911 from any campus phone; by using elevator phones; or red emergency phones in the lobbies of Hayes and Lewis Halls; Galvin Fine Arts Center; and the Beehive in Ambrose Hall. The call will ring directly to the security desk and receive an immediate response from the security staff.

If the incident is criminal in nature, the victim/reporting person is encouraged to report the incident to the Davenport Police Department. The Security Department will assist by serving as an advocate for the victim/reporting person as they complete the report filing process.

From time to time, students may find themselves locked out of their residential room. When this occurs, students need to complete an Unlock Form at the Security desk in the Rogalski Center. Once the proper paperwork has been completed, the rounds guard will be available to unlock the student's room at his/her earliest convenience.

The first unlock is without charge, but subsequent lock-outs will cost the student.

Any property found on campus should be brought to the Security office in the Rogalski Center as soon as possible. Reasonable effort will be made to contact the owner. All found/confiscated property will be kept for 30 days from the date it is turned in or two weeks after the close of any semester. In order to assist with recovery, all lost items of value should be reported to the Security office.

Controlling access to campus facilities is the first tier in providing safety and security for the members of the campus community and protecting all property owned by the University.

To that end, it is the responsibility of every campus member to make certain that doors are not propped open and that visitors/guests and residents use only designated entrances and exits while following these guidelines:

• Bechtel, Cosgrove, Davis, Franklin, Hagen, Rohlman, McCarthy, North, and Tiedemann Halls will remain locked 24 hours per day and are monitored through an electronic access control system.
• On campus residents have access to all residence halls from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Beginning at 11 p.m., only the residents of each building will be granted access.
• St. Ambrose students and visitors to the buildings must follow the appropriate procedures as outlined in the Residence Life Visitation Policy. The visitation policy requires all guests to leave the building (except in preferred housing) by 2 a.m., with the exception of properly signed-in, same gender guests. Both host and guest are held responsible for violations of the visitation policy. Residents of the townhouses and individual campus houses are not required to sign in their guests and have a more open visitation policy. All residential facilities are patrolled frequently by Security and Residence Life personnel.
• Academic buildings are generally secured by the Security Department at 10 p.m. and reopened at 7 a.m. Security staff conduct routine patrols of all areas and campus grounds. Students and employees are encouraged to report safety concerns such as inadequate lighting and door/lock problems to the security desk.

Some campus facilities, such as the Wellness and Recreation Center and/or cadaver labs, require additional levels of security to ensure that facilities are being used by authorized individuals. These measures include showing your campus issued picture ID upon entry and/or using an access control device to gain entry.

The University reserves the right to modify access requirements into facilities as necessary to ensure both the safety of users and the smooth, efficient operation of the facility. The University will make reasonable efforts to inform the community of any requirements and changes. Such efforts will include email communication, MySAU Portal announcements, and/or signs at the facility entrance.

Members of the Ambrose community experiencing issues with using their BeeCard (access controlled) doors or entry points should contact BeeCard Services at 563-333-6257, BeeCard@sau.edu or if after business hours, Security at 563-333-6104 for assistance.

Students who have lost their BeeCard are responsible for immediately reporting the loss via the GET app or BeeCard website.

In an effort to enhance the protection of the people and property of the St. Ambrose community, closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) are located at various locations around campus.

While increasing surveillance is a common tool used to combat crime, maintaining a sense of privacy among community members is also important to maintaining a healthy environment.

In order to ensure the privacy of community members, the cameras will only monitor generally accepted public areas, and the images will only be available to law enforcement and University personnel. This system will provide the ability to review images should crimes be reported in these areas, and it may also be used to monitor suspicious behavior reported on the campus grounds.

The campus community is encouraged to report any student who has been missing for at least 24 hours to Campus Security or any Resident Advisor (RA), Area Coordinator, or the Dean of Students Office.

All residential students may contact the Campus Security Department to register a confidential contact person in the event they are missing. This information will only be available to authorized campus officials and law enforcement officers investigating the missing persons report. All reports of missing students should be immediately forwarded to the Security Department.

Upon receiving a report of a missing student, every effort will be made to contact the RA, roommates, suitemate, Area Coordinator, and professors to ascertain the subject's whereabouts. If the subject has not been seen, the Davenport Police Department will be notified. If the subject is under the age of 18, or when deemed appropriate by the University, parents and guardians will also be notified.

Hoverboards/self-balancing scooters are not permitted on campus property.

This policy is in response to the danger posed by hover boards/self-balancing scooters (which led to their recall by all major manufacturers) due to fact that the lithium-ion battery packs in the self-balancing scooters/hover boards can overheat, posing a risk of the products smoking, catching fire, and/or exploding.