Chattahoochee Technical College is committed to providing a safe, respectful, and inclusive learning environment for all students and employees. Hazing is prohibited in any form, both on and off campus, and will not be tolerated.

Hazing can cause serious physical, emotional, and psychological harm. It is a violation of College policy and may also violate federal and Georgia law, including the Stop Campus Hazing Act and Georgia's "Max Gruver Act."

The College is dedicated to preventing hazing, educating the campus community, reporting incidents, and holding individuals and organizations accountable for violations. Students or organizations found responsible for hazing may face disciplinary action, criminal penalties, or both.
The information below is provided in compliance with the Stop Campus Hazing Act and Georgia's Max Gruver Act.

Federal Definition (Stop Campus Hazing Act / Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act)

Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concert with other persons) against another person or persons, regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate, that:

  • Is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and
  • Causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the College or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team) of physical or psychological injury
  • Definition for Physical or Psychological Injury:
    • whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone’s body or similar activity;
    • causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics or other similar activity;
    • causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs or other substances;
      o causing, coercing or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
    • any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
    • any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal or Federal law; and any activity that induces, causes or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal or Federal law.

State Definition (Georgia O.C.G.A. § 16-5-61 - Max Gruver Act)

The terms used are defined below: 

  • "Haze" or "hazing" means to subject a student to an activity which endangers or is likely to endanger the physical health of a student or coerces the student through the use of social or physical pressure to consume any food, liquid, alcohol, drug, or other substance which subjects the student to a likely risk of vomiting, intoxication, or unconsciousness regardless of a student's willingness to participate in such activity.
  • "School" means any unit of the University System of Georgia, any unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, or any private postsecondary school, college, or university in this state.
  • "School organization" means any association, corporation, order, club, society, fraternity, sorority, athletic team, or a group living together which has students or alumni as its principal members, including local affiliate organizations.
  • "Student" means any person enrolled or prospectively enrolled in a school in this state.

It shall be unlawful for any person to haze any student in connection with or as a condition or precondition of gaining acceptance, membership, office, or other status in a school organization.

Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.

Campus Transparency & Public Reporting

To satisfy both federal (SCHA) and state requirements, the College maintains two distinct reporting standards:

  • Public Campus Hazing Transparency Report: The College publishes a publicly accessible online log detailing all findings of hazing violations, adjudications, and criminal convictions involving student organizations. Each entry includes the organization name, incident date(s), specific findings, sanctions, and final outcomes. This report is updated biannually (at least twice per year) and maintained for a minimum of five (5) years following final adjudication.
  • Clery Act Annual Security Report (ASR): In accordance with the SCHA amendments to the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, all reported hazing incidents are recorded in the official campus crime log and included as statistics in the College’s published Annual Security Report (ASR), which can be found on the Chattahoochee Technical College Campus Police webpage. 
Student
Organization
Name		 Violation Alcohol/Drug
Involvement		 Incident
Date		 Investigation
Initiation
Date		 Inv
Conclusion
Date		 Notification of outcome to
student organization
date		 Findings Sanctions
As of 8/13/26,
no reports of hazing
have occurred at
Chattahoochee Tech.		                

Reporting Hazing Violations

Violations may lead to institutional disciplinary sanctions and criminal charges under Georgia law (guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature). 

Report a Hazing Incident

TCSG Procedures

View TSCG Procedures

  • Procedure 7.1.1p2 Clery Act Compliance
  • Procedure 6.7.2p2 Student Conduct Codes