Workplace Searches

To protect property and to ensure the safety of all employees, students, and the campus, the University reserves the right to inspect personal items, such as lunch bags, toolboxes, thermoses, backpacks, purses, etc., carried by individual employees. Employees who have personal items they would not like subjected to such inspection should not be bring those items onto University premises. A search can also include University property, such as University vehicles, lockers, desks, filing cabinets, computer files, email, and voicemail. Inspection may be conducted at any time at the discretion of the University. Refusal to cooperate with or submit to a search will not be tolerated.