Personal Safety Tips & Resources
Safety: A Shared Responsibility
As a university, we make every effort to keep crime at bay. But we need
everyone’s help to make the campus a safer place. Learn how you can help deter criminal activity on campus.
Emergency Text Messaging System
The LSU Emergency Text Messaging System is a service that allows anyone in the LSU community, including the LSU AgCenter and Paul M. Hebert Law Center, to receive alerts, news, or other emergency information via text message on their mobile phones.
Call Boxes on Campus
LSU has tamper resistant phones near the entrances to most dorms and many other buildings which will allow you to make an on-campus call or contact the police by dialing 911.
Location of Police
Stations
View maps, directions, and contact information of police stations and sheriffs'
offices within a 10 mile radius of the LSU campus.
Withholding Names and Addresses from LSU's Online Directory
You may withhold your name, phone numbers, and addresses from being listed
on the University's online directory.
- To withhold your name from the online directory, make the following selections from your PAWS desktop: Personal Preferences -> Directory Information -> Withholding Information. Set your name withholding status to "Withhold from Internet." If you select name withholding, neither your name nor your addresses will be available through the online directory.
- To withhold a specific mailing address, make the following selections from your PAWS desktop: Personal Preferences -> Directory Information -> Mailing Address. Set the address withholding status to "Withhold from Internet." If you choose to withhold a specific address, your name will still appear in the online directory but that address will not appear. E-mail addresses can also be withheld.
LSU
Safety Awareness Programs
Learn more about campus call boxes, Campus Transit, LSU Crime Stoppers,
emergency numbers, hall watch, campus lighting, Operation ID, Rape Aggression
Defense Systems Classes, safety programs, and awareness weeks, sponsored
by the Department of Wellness Education.
Safety
Tips from the LSU Police Department
Learn how to protect yourself at home, in your room, residence hall, or
apartment; when walking; and when driving. Also lean about protecting your automobile
or bicycle.
Semester
Crime Prevention Tips
Find tips for safety and security in residence halls, calling for help,and obtaining non-emergency assistance.
Residence
Hall Security
Learn about all of the security measures in place in the residence halls,
including our new Card-Access Security System.
Residence Hall Presentations arranged by the LSU Police. Please consider attending one of these excellent presentations.
Campus
Transit
Campus Transit provides free door-to-door rides on campus between 5:30
p.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday through Friday. The vehicles are radio dispatched
from the LSU Public Safety Building, and anyone on campus can call 578-5555
to be picked up within a few minutes. Drivers are carefully selected for
this job.
Facility Services Hotline: 578-2327
If you notice poorly lit areas, broken lights, or overgrown
landscaping, please report these concerns to Facility Services.
Tips
for Speaking to the Media
In order to keep members of the LSU community as safe as possible, the
LSU Office of Public Affairs has compiled some suggestions for anyone
who is interviewed by the media.
Safety
Tips from the Baton Rouge Police Department
This site includes tips on personal safety, keeping kids safe, keeping
safe at home, reducing violence, helping victims of crime, and avoiding fraud
and scams.
Baton
Rouge Crime Stoppers
Crime Stoppers is a community involvement program designed to help stop
crime in its tracks. Crime Stoppers' reason for existing is to gather
clues that law enforcement agencies need to solve major crimes by offering
cash rewards and providing a single number to call with information
relating to any crime or criminal activity.
Energy Services
For more than 20 years, the LSU campus has supported and hosted numerous
crime-prevention and educational programs. In light of recent events,
LSU is upgrading illumination in current outdoor lighting fixtures, installing additional outdoor lighting fixtures around campus, and improving
visibility by pruning trees and shrubs.
