Policies

The College maintains a Security Department for security and law enforcement on its campuses. Stanly Community College’s (SCC) Security Department employs sworn law enforcement officers. Sworn officers possess the power of arrest and the authority to enforce all state laws and college regulations on all of SCC’s property and on all roads and highways that run through or adjacent to the campuses. The Security Department  has a close working relationship with local law enforcement agencies.

The College will make timely warning reports to members of the campus community regarding the occurrence of criminal offenses as required by 20 United States Code section 1092(f), the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.”

All students, employees, and others on campus have a duty to report incidents or suspected incidents of criminal activity to Campus Security or another college official immediately.

Campus Security Officers are present on the SCC Albemarle campus from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday or until the last class has ended and from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Fridays or until the last class has ended, not including special events/details. Campus Security Officers are present at the Crutchfield Education Center from 7:30 a.m. until the last class has ended Monday- Friday with Saturday and Sunday as needed not including special events/details.

Campus buildings are locked at the end of each day of the instructional/work week and reopened by 30 minutes  prior to the first class meeting.

SCC reserves the right to modify hours for locking and unlocking campus buildings to meet the needs of specific circumstances.

SCC reserves the right to modify the working hours of Campus Security Officers to meet the needs of public safety and security, most notably during states of emergency declared by local, state, or federal authorities or other exigent circumstances as determined by the SCC President.

The Director of Security will compile the statistics on criminal activity for each campus of SCC as required by law. The Director will regularly report the statistics by October 1 each year to the appropriate federal agencies as required by law and to the President and other members of the Executive Leadership Team.

The annual statistics on criminal activity for each campus of SCC for the most recent three calendar years will be available for public viewing on the college website, in the Eagle's One Stop (Albemarle), Human Resources Office (Albemarle), Learning Resources Center (Crutchfield), the Cosmetology facility, and the West Main facility.

A notice of the availability of these statistics will be published annually on the college website.

Any college employee to whom criminal activity is reported shall report the activity to the Director of Security.

Revisions: 02/20/2014 (policy); 12/19/2013, 05/12/2020 (procedures)