Missing Student Notification
If any member of the Carroll College community has reason to believe that a student who resides in campus housing is missing, they should immediately notify an Area Coordinator, the Associate Director of Residential Life & Housing, or the Assistant Dean of Students/Director of Residential Life & Housing or the Dean of Students and Retention. A student is presumed missing if he/she is overdue in reaching home, campus, or other specific destination for 24 hours past his/her expected time of arrival and/or additional factors lead college staff to believe that he/she is missing. College staff will (1) conduct a health and safety check of the resident’s room, (2) attempt to contact the student via cell phone, email or other means, (3) identify other students who may be aware of the missing person’s whereabouts (i.e. roommate, friends, classmates, other residents, etc.), (4) use the student’s class schedule to con- tact his or her professors, and (5) contact the student’s academic advisor.
If, upon investigation, it is determined that the student has been missing for more than 24 hours, the Dean of Students and Retention (or designee) will:
- Contact the student’s identified emergency contact no later than 24 hours after the student was determined missing;
- Contact the parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a student who is under the age of 18 years of age, and not an emancipated individual, no later than 24 hours after the student was determined missing (in addition to any contact person designated by the student);
- Notify Helena Police Department within 24 hours of when the student is determined to be missing (if Helena Police did not make the determination that the student is missing).
Students have the option to register a confidential contact person to be notified in case the student is determined to be missing and that only authorized campus officials and law enforcement officers in furtherance of a missing person investigation may have access to this information.