All property turned into Lost and Found is entered into a Public Safety database. If you are missing property, please contact us at 202.885.2527 or dps@american.edu and give us as accurate a description of the property as possible. If it belongs to you, you may come to our building (located across from the south side shuttle stop) to recover it.

If the property does not belong to you, you then will be asked to fill out a property form (if you are in the building) and that information will then be entered into the computer. If they are calling on the phone, the dispatcher will take the information and enter it in. 

The owners of any recovered property (such as AU IDs) that has an identifying feature (e.g. their name) will receive an e-mail notifying them that we have their property.  They will then come in, retrieve their property and sign electronically signifying that they received it.