Locker Policy

Purpose — Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee makes lockers available to students to facilitate the daily  storage of their learning materials and items related to their studies. Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee manages lockers to ensure responsible use of property and for the health and safety of individuals. 

Agreement — Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee establishes rules, guidelines and procedures to ensure  responsible use and to control the contents of its lockers. By utilizing Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee’s  lockers, students acknowledge and agree that locker use is a privilege and subject to immediate  termination without notice and to such rules, guidelines and procedures established by Paul Mitchell The  School Milwaukee from time to time, at its discretion. 

Guidelines 

  1. Lockers will be issued to all students during Core. A locker number will be provided during Core. Assigned lockers may not be traded or changed unless approved by the school’s administration.
  2. Locker assignments are valid from the beginning of enrollment until the day of graduation or  withdrawal. At that time, all locker contents must be removed. After that time, any lockers that  have not yet been vacated will be emptied, and the contents stored for 60 days, at which time they  become the property of the school. 
  3. Lockers are for individual use only and are not to be shared. Locker content is the sole responsibility of the registered occupant of the locker. To reduce the risk of theft, students are encouraged to keep  their lockers locked. Students should not store money, wallets, jewelry, credit or debit cards, or any  other personal item of high value. 
  4. Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee is not in any way responsible for a locker’s contents or liable for the  loss of or damage to items stored in lockers. Students are required to maintain their locker’s interior  and exterior in a clean, neat and undamaged condition. Marking, defacing or graffiti on lockers is not  acceptable. 
  5. No person shall store in a locker: weapons of any kind, explosives, prohibited drugs, illegal or illicit  items or substances or other items deemed by Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee to be harmful,  offensive or inappropriate. 
  6. Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee may in its sole discretion carry out or authorize searches/ inspections for any reason. The following is a partial listing of examples of when Paul Mitchell The School will exercise its discretion without notice: 
    1. Locker abandonment. 
    2. Suspected contents that may be illegal, illicit or deemed by the school to be harmful, offensive or  inappropriate. 
    3. At the request of or generally in cooperation with law enforcement authorities.
    4. Investigative purposes related to suspected or alleged criminal, illegal, or inappropriate activities. 
    5. Risk to the general good of the school. 
    6. Risk to the general good of the student or student population. 
    7. Unregistered locker. 
    8. Physical damage to or defacing of the locker. 
    9. Odors (spoiled/rancid food, garbage or smelly contents). 
    10. Locker maintenance. 
  7. Paul Mitchell The School Milwaukee works with the local law enforcement authorities and maintains  the right in the school’s sole discretion to allow law enforcement to carry out specific and random  searches/inspections of locker contents. Such searches/inspections may be carried out with or  without notice to or in the presence of the locker’s occupant. Such police activity may include but  is not limited to: random drug or weapon searches of lockers, backpacks, book bags, brief cases, containers, jackets and winter coats.