Hazing Prevention & Education

Reporting period: December 18, 2025, through June 18, 2026

There were no findings of responsibility for hazing violations during this reporting period.

Student organization

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Incident and investigation dates

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Description of violation

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Institutional findings and sanctions

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Reporting period: July 1, 2025, through December 18, 2025

There were no findings of responsibility for hazing violations during this reporting period.

Student organization

Not applicable

Incident and investigation dates

Not applicable

Description of violation

Not applicable

Institutional findings and sanctions

Not applicable

When a recognized student organization is found responsible for a hazing violation, the report may include:

• The name of the student organization.
• A general description of the violation, including whether alcohol or drugs were involved.
• The institution’s findings and any sanctions imposed.
• The dates of the alleged incident, investigation, finding, and notice to the organization.

The report does not include personally identifiable information about individual students.

The Campus Hazing Transparency Report documents institutional findings of responsibility involving recognized student organizations.

OTC publishes an Annual Security Report by October 1 each year. It includes crime statistics for the previous three calendar years, including qualifying hazing incidents that meet the Clery Act definition, occur within applicable Clery geography, and are reported to a Campus Security Authority or local law enforcement.

Daily Crime Log information is maintained under separate reporting criteria. Because the Campus Hazing Transparency Report, Annual Security Report, and Daily Crime Log serve different purposes and may reflect different stages of review, they may not contain the same incidents or totals.

View the Annual Security Report & Clery Act page

Under the Stop Campus Hazing Act, hazing is an intentional, knowing, or reckless act connected to joining, affiliating with, or maintaining membership in a student organization that causes, or creates an unreasonable risk of, physical or psychological injury.

An activity may qualify as hazing regardless of whether the affected person appears willing to participate.

Examples may include:

• Beating, striking, electronic shocking, or placing a harmful substance on someone.
• Sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement, or extreme physical activity.
• Coercing someone to consume food, alcohol, drugs, or another substance.
• Coercing someone to perform a sexual act.
• Threatening conduct that creates a reasonable fear of bodily harm.
• Requiring someone to participate in conduct that violates the law.

Read the Stop Campus Hazing Act

For federal hazing-reporting purposes, a student organization may include a club, society, association, athletic team, club sports team, fraternity, sorority, band, student government, or another group in which two or more members are enrolled students.

The definition may apply whether or not the organization is formally established or recognized by the institution.

Recognized student organizations and groups at OTC include:

• Family, Career and Community Leaders of America.
• National Adult Education Honor Society.
• National Technical Honor Society.
• SkillsUSA.

Florida law prohibits actions or situations that recklessly or intentionally endanger a student’s mental or physical health or safety in connection with joining, affiliating with, or maintaining a tradition or ritual of a student organization.

Examples may include:

• Physical brutality or forced physical activity.
• Forced consumption of food, alcohol, drugs, or another substance.
• Sleep deprivation or forced isolation.
• Conduct causing extreme embarrassment or mental stress.
• Pressure or coercion to violate state or federal law.

Florida law provides criminal penalties when hazing causes serious or permanent injury or death, or creates a substantial risk of physical injury or death. A person who solicits or actively helps plan hazing may also be covered by the law.

A person’s consent is not a defense to a hazing charge. The law also provides protections under specified circumstances for the first person who calls 911 or campus security and for a person who renders aid while awaiting emergency assistance.

Read Florida Statute 1006.63

Hazing concerns may involve student-conduct review, school administration, Title IX, threat-management procedures, District Police, or local law enforcement, depending on the circumstances.

• School Board Policy JIC and the Code of Student Conduct apply to dual-enrolled OTC students.
• The OTC Disciplinary Response Code applies to adult OTC students.
• Concerns involving an alleged threat may be referred to the School Threat Management Team under Board Policy JICK .
• Concerns involving sexual misconduct, dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking may also involve Title IX review and support.

Report a Concern or find campus safety and support contacts.

OTC and OCPS provide hazing-prevention resources to help students, employees, families, and community members recognize hazing, respond safely, and understand the importance of reporting concerns.

Available NFHS courses:

• Hazing Prevention for Students
• Bullying, Hazing, and Inappropriate Behaviors

These courses address recognizing hazing, understanding how it differs from bullying, responding as a bystander, and helping create safer and more welcoming organizations.

OCPS also requires coaches to complete annual hazing-prevention education.