Campus Safety & Security Mission Statement
Peralta Campus Public Safety Services is responsible for protecting the lives and property of students, employees, and visitors. Our mission is to preserve the peace, maintain order, and enforce state, federal, and local laws. Our goal is to provide a safe environment so that the educational process can be conducted in an orderly and uninterrupted manner. Campus Public Safety partners focus on working with students, faculty, and staff in addressing the problems and/or concerns identified with safety and security.
To contact Peralta’s Public Safety Services, please call (510) 466-7236
Jeanne Clery Disclosure
In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, Peralta Community College District has made crime reporting statistics available online in both our Annual Security Report and the Personal Safety Handbook . Reported crimes that occurred on campus, in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by Peralta Community College District, and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus, during the last three years, are included. The report also includes institutional policies concerning campus security, alcohol, and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes, sexual assault, and other safety matters.
Workplace Violence
Use the report document below to report incidences of workplace violence - send to publicsafety@peralta.edu
All provisions of the California Vehicle Code apply to individuals and to vehicles being driven on and about campus property and parking lots. All vehicle codes, including 21113 C.V.C., are strictly enforced. The speed limit is 5 m.p.h. in campus parking lots and property. Students may only park in designated student parking areas.
Persons must obey all California Vehicle Codes and carefully read and follow the campus parking and traffic signage. Illegally parked vehicles will be cited and/or towed at the owner’s expense. For towed vehicles, contact the Alameda Sheriff’s Department at (510) 667-3600. Parking violations are enforced 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays.
College officials do not have the authority to rescind or to arbitrate citation matters.
Students must not park in staff parking areas, red zones, yellow (loading zones), green 30 minute zones or in other unauthorized areas. Disabled student parking areas are available and posted with blue paint and handicapped parking signs.
“Handicap Accessible” signs mean the area is accessible by persons with disabilities, it does not mean it is designated for “Handicapped Parking”.
Disabled students must also properly display their daily or semester parking permit (and a Student I.D. Decal if they attend Laney) along with their D.M.V. issued handicap placard and/or handicap license plate.
Staff must properly display their staff parking permit along with their D.M.V. issued disabled placard and/or disabled plate.
Daily parking permits expire at 10:45 p.m. each night and the parking lot gates are locked and secured at 11:00 p.m. each evening. Overnight parking is not authorized and vehicles will be towed at the owner’s expense. (Contact the Alameda Sheriff’s Department at (510) 667-3600).
Visitors may park in the green 30 minutes zones at Merritt and College of Alameda if they are staying only 30 minutes or less. Visitors may park lawfully on the street at campuses with street parking, (metered zones require coinage). Special guest permits may be obtained through the business offices.
Semester parking permits may be purchased for the student parking at Laney, Merritt and College of Alameda campuses for $20.00 ($10.00 for motorcycles).
The summer session rate is $20.00 for cars ($5.00 for motorcycles). These rates are for all students, including fee waiver.
You may choose to pay for parking on a daily basis, rather than purchasing a semester permit. The cost of daily parking is $2.00 cents per day (exact change only). The daily permits may be purchased from the ticket machines located in the parking lots.
In addition to the daily parking permits, Laney College students must properly display a “STUDENT I.D. DECAL” (hanging from the rear view mirror with the numbered side facing outward), in order to park in a student parking lot or you will be cited.
Student I.D. Decals are issued, initially, at no charge and can be obtained from the Cashier’s Office. Replacement cost for lost or stolen student I.D. decals are at full price.
Unlike Laney, Merritt and College of Alameda, the Berkeley City College campus has no parking lot; therefore, Berkeley City College does not honor parking stickers from other Peralta Colleges. There is no designated public parking lot at Berkeley City College.
Free street parking is available after 6:00 p.m. and at most community sites where Berkeley City College classes are held. The Center Street Garage, located between Milvia and Shattuck, charges an hourly parking fee and the garage may be entered on the Center Street side.
