Room Inspections

Maintenance, property inventory, safety and sanitation inspections will be held monthly for designated residential staff. Every possible effort will be made to conduct such inspections while the assigned resident is present. At that time, the resident will be fully apprised of his/her rights and of the purpose of the inspection.

Unannounced safety inspections will be conducted at the direction of the Director of Residential Life with the assistance of LUPD and residence hall staff. Any banned or prohibited item(s) found in a resident’s room (e.g. candles, incense, extension cords, food preparation appliances other than the microwave, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and/or drug paraphernalia, and any item that meets the definition of a weapon) are subject to university and/or legal sanctions. Fines may also be assessed for violation of the housing rules and regulations (e.g. tampering with a smoke detector, etc.). Charges may be filed against a resident by the LUPD when they are in violation of the law.

Off-campus authorities may not gain room entrance to search a student’s room without a search warrant (executed by a magistrate court judge) except in the case of “hot pursuit” by any law enforcement agency. U.S. Treasury Department agents and FBI agents are the only exception to the above requirements for a valid search warrant (federal law).