Ensuring a safe environment while you are on campus is the mission of the Public Safety office. We work to control traffic, maintain safe parking lots, enforce parking regulations and provide assistance in emergency situations. View our Crime Rate report. The Public Safety Office is located in the Academic Affairs Office on the upper level of Hawkeye Center.
Students must obtain a parking sticker and parking regulations booklet free of charge from the Business Office and familiarize themselves with the parking regulations contained in the parking regulation booklet.
In addition, Public Safety monitors the fire systems on campus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If, for good reason, an employee or student desires assistance to go to or from their car, an escort can be arranged by calling 319-493-1763 or 319-493-1765.
Hawkeye Community College has adopted parking and traffic regulations in order to maximize safety and ensure access for emergency vehicles. Parking stickers are provided and required for student and employee vehicles. Copies of the parking and traffic regulations are provided to all students when they register their vehicles at the Business Office in Hawkeye Center. The Public Safety Office enforces the parking regulations and assesses fines for violations. Students may appeal parking tickets by completing a Parking Violation Appeal form. The Parking Violation Appeal forms are available in the following offices: Academic Affairs, Public Safety and the Business Office.
If you need to leave a personal vehicle on campus overnight, you must notify Public Safety and park your vehicle overnight in the west end of Lot I (north of Butler Hall).
No firearms, ammunition, or any other controlled weapon or incendiary device, substance, or materials are allowed on college property, except as expressly authorized by the appropriate Dean as used in a continuing education class, in the firing range, or for required use in an instructional program. Firearms shall be restricted to appropriate educational laboratories.
Children are not authorized on college property at any time, unless they are under the immediate supervision of a parent, guardian, or registered student. Children are not permitted in class. Children are not to be left unsupervised. Children should not be left in vehicles without an adult present inside the vehicle. Instances of unsupervised children will be reported to the Department of Human Services.
Hawkeye Community College complies with the Iowa Right-To-Know Law. Material Safety Data Sheets are filed within each building. Faculty and staff have received the safety training required to manage hazardous materials in the workplace.
Livestock and other domesticated animals, including but not limited to fowl, cats, dogs, cows, horses, mules, sheep, goats, swine, or reptiles, when on College property, must be kept confined or otherwise physically constrained. For safety and sanitation reasons, pets are not permitted in College buildings. Service dogs are excepted. Pets are permitted on the campus in outdoor areas when properly controlled and constrained. Pets brought on the campus must have tags attached to the collar of the pet indicating license and vaccination under Iowa law. Pets must be under control of a leash with a maximum length of three feet.
Any person who walks an animal on public areas of the campus shall be responsible for the prompt collection and disposal of the solid waste left by that animal. This requirement shall not apply to service animals assisting a person with a disability.
Animals found running at large or not properly constrained may be impounded. Consistent with Iowa law, such animals may be turned over to city animal control officials. A record will be maintained by the Public Safety Office. In those cases where impoundment is necessary, the owner of the animal or its claimant shall be personally responsible for all costs associated with reclaiming the animal.
Exceptions to this policy will be allowed for the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department and the College Farm or for other instructional activities with prior approval of an Academic Affairs Dean.
