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an effort to locate the student and confirm his or her safety. Collin College will notify the local law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction in the area within 24 hours of the determination that a student is missing, unless the local law enforcement agency was the entity that made the determination. Additionally, Collin College must notify a custodial parent or guardian within 24 hours of the determination that a student who is under 18 years of age and not emancipated is missing, in addition to notifying any additional contact person(s) designated by the student. The following procedures will be utilized when the Collin College Police Department is notified of a missing student who resides in Collin College Student Housing: 1. 2. 3. The Collin College Police Department officer on duty will respond to the location. The responding Collin College Police Department officer will initiate an investigation by interviewing the reporting party, and will obtain as much information as possible about the reported missing student (e.g., last date and time seen; place of employment; places where the student normally hangs out; make, model, and year of vehicle student drives; student’s hometown; etc.). The responding Collin College Police Department officer will notify Collin College Student Housing management, the Collin College Police Department chain of 2019-2020 Collin College Resident Handbook 4. 5. 6. 7. command (i.e., sergeants, lieutenants, and chief of police), and the Dean of Students Office (DOS). A DOS staff member will check the Banner Student Information System to obtain the student’s current class schedule, and will then contact each of the student’s professors to find out whether the student has been attending classes or has contacted them. The responding Collin College Police Department officer will conduct a check of the local hospitals to ascertain whether the student has been admitted as a patient. The responding Collin College Police Department officer will obtain the student’s emergency contact information on file with DOS, if the student chose to register this information. Within 24 hours of the Collin College Police Department’s determination that a resident student who is the subject of a missing person report has been missing for more than 24 hours and has not returned to Collin College Student Housing or a Collin College campus, the Collin College Police Department will contact: a. the person(s) identified confidentially by the student as a designated missing person contact(s); b. the custodial parent or guardian and any other designated missing person contact(s) of a student under 18 years of age who is not emancipated; and c. the local county or municipal law enforcement agency with concurrent jurisdiction in the area. Page 36